Word: reworked
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Frisell is one of the most innovative guitarists of our times and indeed one of the most amazing musicians alive today. Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but one reason why hyperbole exists is to describe the inexplicable. Indeed, it is quite difficult to characterize Frisell's music. Able to rework tunes from Dylan to Madonna to John Phillip Sousa as well as create a spatially expansive body of his own work, Frisell's music has been called the essence of "Americana." No doubt it is the sense of recognition, springing not so much from an elusive nostalgia as a surprisingly warm and engaging...
...laser. Originally developed in the 1970s for the precise etching of computer chips, it is a so-called cool laser, meaning that it can cut through almost any material without generating a lot of heat damage. That's just the kind of exacting low-impact tool surgeons needed to rework the delicate tissues of the eye. So a company called Summit Technology, of Waltham, Mass., dedicated itself to figuring out how to adapt the excimer laser to eye surgery. Today, Summit and another company, Visx, of Santa Clara, Calif., dominate the eye-laser industry...
June came and went on the mountain, and we are that much closer now to eight new listings in the movie guide. Locke, by the end, has become convinced of two things--that she has to rework one of her main characters and that she has never believed more in her movie. Alice, once a critic, has become an admirer, and says that when the movie gets made, she wants...
...concerning undergraduate advising at Harvard and to the comments directed to the Economics Department in particular. In the editorial and related article, The Crimson remarked that the Economics Department ranked near bottom in advising and quoted Head Tutor Christopher Foote as saying "We have no plans to rework the system." Apparently, a large portion of the investigative reporting by The Crimson constituted putting those two sentences right next to each other...
...undergraduates take certain realities about Faculty existence into consideration and the Faculty accepts certain responsibilities towards undergraduates more directly. Until this meeting of the minds occurs, whether autonomously or at the behest of University Hall, I can only say that there are and will be, sadly, "no plans to rework the system". RISHI GANTI Feb. 11, 1999 The author is an advisor in the Department of Economics, a resident tutor in economics at Lowell House, and Head Teaching Fellow of Economics 1423, "Capital Markets...