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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since there are no guidelines for LASIK, it's up to each physician to decide who is the best candidate. Many refuse to operate on patients with normal-size pupils whose correction is greater than -12 for nearsightedness and +4 for farsightedness. Others will go as high...
...another gallery sits Marcus Harvey's huge grisaille portrait of an English child abuser and murderer, Myra Hindley, whose image is composed of child-size handprints. Proving that local politics tends to make all art local, it is this work, rather than Ofili's Holy Virgin, that prompted an outcry in London, where "Sensation" first appeared two years ago at the Royal Academy of Arts. And yet, like Ofili's work, Myra is hardly an astonishment, looking like a wobbly send-up of a picture by the American painter Chuck Close. People in New York, ignorant of her crimes, will...
...fell in love with the Merlin wireless modem the first time I saw a picture of one in an ad. It is so adorable. The modem is built into one of those PCMCIA cards that fit into a credit-card-size slot on a laptop computer; a teeny, 2-in. antenna--so cute!--pops up to send and receive data at 19.2 kbps. That's a fairly pedestrian speed, but if it meant I could do e-mail and even browse the Web while riding the Long Island Rail Road, I'd happily put up with it. Imagine...
Johnson mentioned that Justice's Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel incorporates student responses into his lectures as a method of increasing communication despite the intimidating size of the class...
...council also discussed general goals for the year, including building stronger alliances with student groups and responding to the administration's recent decision to limit blocking group size to eight students...