Word: propellant
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With a new year came a fresh start for the Crimson season, and Peljto thrived coming off the bench. She led all scorers with 20 points in 23 minutes to propel Harvard to a 70-57 win over B.U. on Jan. 2. She followed that up with a 22-point effort at Dartmouth on Jan. 6 in the Crimson's critical 72-58 Ivy-opening...
...Uematsu's music imbues Final Fantasy games with grandeur and depth, much the way John Williams' score helped propel Star Wars into hyperspace. Unlike movie music, Uematsu's supple, heartfelt tunes loop endlessly - until the user moves to a new scene. To stand up to repeated scrutiny, his work is suitably complex (he uses drums, oboes, strings and synthesizers), but the melodic core is strong (he has released solo piano versions of some songs). He doesn't find his field limiting: "If I had been composing only popular music in Japan, I would not have had the opportunity to hear...
Uematsu's music imbues Final Fantasy games with grandeur and depth, much the way John Williams' score helped propel Star Wars into hyperspace. Unlike movie music, Uematsu's supple, heartfelt tunes loop endlessly--until the user moves to a new scene. To stand up to repeated scrutiny, his work is suitably complex (he uses drums, oboes, strings and synthesizers), but the melodic core is strong (he has released solo piano versions of some songs). He doesn't find his field limiting: "If I had been composing only popular music in Japan, I would not have had the opportunity to hear...
...Lucent suspects left China to seek academic and monetary success in America, part of an influx of foreign-born scientists and engineers who helped propel the U.S. to R.-and-D. dominance in the 1980s and '90s. Hai Lin, 30, got a Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute for Technology in 1996, while his future colleague at Lucent, Kai Xu, 33, got a doctorate in 1995 from Rutgers. Both found work through a technology-employment firm that places talented technicians with companies that need their expertise. For two years they worked as "distinguished members" of Lucent's staff, making...
...world," says RSC managing director Chris Foy. "If we are laying claim to the minds of the world we have to move into America." The University of Michigan contributed $2 million this year in what Foy hopes will be the start of a grand scheme that could propel his company into communities across...