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...Holographic Optical Trap, or HOT, invented by Grier’s group in 1997. According to Grier, a HOT “use[s] forces exerted by light to grab and move microscopic objects.” The HOT technology improves on previous methods to arrange nanowires by stochastic methods??like the use of fluid pressure to coax nanowires into place. Grier wrote in an e-mail that applications of the HOT technique “range from performing surgery within living cells to fundamental investigations of many-body statistical physics”—the investigation...
...military intelligence specialist who conducted interrogations in Vietnam, Panama, and Iraq during Desert Storm, torture is “simply not a good way to get information.” According to Herrington, nine out of 10 people can be persuaded to talk with no “stress methods?? at all. And even if the remaining person is the correct suspect, he will “just tell you anything to get you to stop.” In 1999, the Supreme Court of Israel—arguably the most experienced democratic court in dealing with such...
...crucial that these priorities remain central; otherwise, the coherent vision that the committee has long labored to craft will be lost amidst the chaotic competition of individual faculty interests.The committee’s recommendations strike a difficult but effective balance between stressing subject matter over the “methods?? of the Core Curriculum while simultaneously emphasizing flexibility in course selection above all else. A common refrain from critics of the Core has been that Harvard students can fulfill distribution requirements by taking very specific classes (a class on the Cuban Revolution 1956-1971, for instance, satisfies...
While the Crimson Yard battle raged, perhaps one-sidedly, upper-class Houses held generally unexciting online elections. Some opted for slightly more innovative methods??Mather held a drag karaoke competition to determine its king...
Ryan Z. Cortazar ’06, a History and Literature concentrator studying in Madrid for the spring semester, wrote in an e-mail that he was not able to access a review sheet online for his “Statistics 100: Introduction to Quantitative Methods?? final explaining a crucial concept until too late...