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...laborious process by creating a camera that did all the work itself, and by 1947 he had done it. Instead of conventional film, the Polaroid Land Camera was loaded with photographic paper coated with a paste of light-sensitive chemicals. A mere 60 sec. after the photographer tripped the shutter, out popped a snapshot. The first Polaroids were black-and-white; the company introduced color in 1963. Land's invention added a new dimension to photography, but for him it was just another stop on a long scientific journey. He went on to do basic research on vision and came...
...stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond. The light slants, giving De Hooch an opportunity to complicate his verticals and horizontals with a diagonal bar of shadow cast by the window transom on the half-open shutter. Some surfaces receive the light directly, others obliquely, thus enabling him to render subtle variations, gleams and sparkles of light on edges and irregularities...
...offenders are required to attend smoking court, presided over once a month by Broward County Court Judge Steven Shutter. On a recent Monday, more than 100 teens, parents in tow, waited to plead their cases. Nerdy kids in starched white shirts and ties stood next to parents who seemed poised to throttle them. A teen with a pierced chin and purple hair sneaked out to the parking lot during a break for a quick smoke. Instead of intimidating the youths, Judge Shutter tried to keep the mood light. "Don't come back and visit," he joked to some before moving...
That was in August 1992. Seventeen months later, in January 1994, Seaboard announced that it would shutter its hog-slaughtering operations and lay off upwards of 600 employees. The company said it would keep about 300 workers to process and produce ready-to-buy meats like bacon, sausage and ham. (The number of employees eventually dropped to about 200, and Seaboard sold the business...
Walker caught the shuttle at about 6 a.m. Friday on its second loop to the Blodgett Pool. He joined a trickle of students clad in warm-up pants and Department of Athletics sweatshirts who walked briskly out of the Quad dining halls towards the shutter or their bikes...