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...Holography was invented in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian scientist working in London who discovered that reflected light could be captured and reconstructed to create the illusion of three-dimensional images. (He won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery.) Gabor, however, lacked the technology to perfect holograms; double images sometimes appeared at once and were not viewable. In the 1960s, Emmett Leith added lasers to the equation and rendered the first stable holograms - which included a toy train that astounded other scientists when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holograms | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...years old, devoid of military or appointed-office experience, Obama seems to fall most easily into the last of these categories. But it's not a perfect fit. For one thing, Obama seems to have far more self-control than Roosevelt, Kennedy and Clinton. He also has less high-level political experience. Kennedy had already served 14 years in Washington (six as a Congressman, eight as a Senator) before ascending to Camelot. Obama, as pre-Palin Republicans once enjoyed pointing out, has yet to complete his first Senate term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Rookies Make Good Presidents? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...stuck in my head —and even jumping into my bed. He was such a stud; And, with the exception of the occasional accident, Billy was nearly always on his best behavior. As sometimes happens, he was a little hairy for my taste, but he made the perfect cuddle buddy. I guess you could say it was a classic case of puppy love...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding My Puppy Love | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...careful what he prayed for. Two weeks before Election Day, the Focus on the Family founder chatted with Sarah Palin on his radio show and shared his backup plan for the struggling GOP ticket. He was, Dobson told her, praying for "God's intervention" and that "God's perfect will be done on November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: Bringing (Some) Evangelicals In | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...liberal or a Democrat, much less all three. But many Americans are living through the worst decade of their lives, and they have anger-management issues. They saw a war mismanaged, a city swallowed, now an economy held together with foreign loans and thumbtacks. It took a perfect storm of bad news to create this moment, but even the big men rarely win in a walk. Ronald Reagan didn't. John Kennedy didn't. Those with the clearest vision often have to fight the hardest for others to see things as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Rewrote the Book | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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