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...small box that houses what could be the future of the telecommunications industry. Called a LambdaRouter, the device contains 512 microscopic mirrors, each of which can switch light waves packed with more than 10 billion bits of information--roughly the contents of 10,000 novels--from one hair-thin strand of optical fiber to another...
Food and lodging are cheap. Low tourist traffic means rooms at upmarket lodges like Trader's go for $50. True luxury such as at the Pansea outside town and the Strand (see Hot Spot) costs more. The Three Seasons ($15) is legendary for owner Mie Mie's helpfulness and invigorating curry breakfasts, but backpackers can find cheaper. In a Burmese restaurant, expect to pay $1-5 for a spread that includes curry, pickled tea, fried vegetables and rice. Try the Green Elephant toward the airport. The 50th Street Bar and Grill, a wood and rattan showpiece, also has delicious fusion...
Robert P. Moses, a civil rights leader and Cambridge resident known for his work in education, received a lifetime service award from a Boston public service organization at the Strand Theater on Friday night...
...small group of progressive American photographers. For some 14 years after 1903, its superbly produced magazine, Camera Work (which Stieglitz edited and oversaw), set an unbeatable standard for art publishing in the U.S. The impact of Stieglitz's work, and his charismatic personality, on younger photographers like Paul Strand was incalculable. If Stieglitz had made nothing but photographs, he would deserve a permanent niche in the American pantheon--an idea that probably would have offended him, who thought in terms of change, not permanence...
...that's about to change. With the mapping of the genome--the twisted double strand of DNA that carries the instructions for making every cell in the human body--the process by which new drugs are developed is being turned upside down. Trial and error, which is how medicines have been discovered for the past 100 years (and for millenniums before that), is yielding to drugs by design. Increasingly scientists, armed with blueprints for our genes, can identify the individual molecules that make us susceptible to a particular disease. With that information--and some high-speed silicon-age machinery--they...