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...graduate student who was performing the experiment, Tsing-Hua Her, noticed immediately that something was amiss when he combined the silicon with halogen gas: the silicon had turned black, but the material couldn’t have been burned, since there was no oxygen present in the chamber. Under the microscope, Her and Mazur saw, the surface of the wafers displayed a forest of tiny spikes...
Harvard’s budding entrepreneurs will get a chance to present their newest business ideas this Saturday before a panel of judges and an audience, in the hope of getting a little seed money to make their dreams into reality...
...Komunyakaa starts by evoking the savage war of primitive man (“An obsidian ax. A lion-skin drum”) and works his way through ancient war, through Gilgamesh, through Cain and Abel, through the visceral, bloody war of the past, to the darker and more terrifying present of torpedoes and secret wars...
...that, speaking on the panel as a director, I’ll be contributing ideas from that point of view, and Mac will be coming at it from a playwright’s point of view.” Not only is this weekend a celebration of past and present accomplishments, it’s also a look forward to what HRDC will become in the future. “I’m always afraid that the only people coming to see my plays are my theater friends,” HRDC vice president Olivia A. Benowitz...
...other serve no one well, least of all the reader. There are rich possibilities within “Sea of Poppies” that never come to bloom. With such an ambitious reach, Ghosh’s novel ought to make the reader a part of its historical present. Excellence is within reach, but the fact that it is only makes this novel’s failure to reach it all the more disappointing. With two more novels left in the trilogy, there is hope that Ghosh’s Ibis will transcend its pages and join the company...