Word: successful
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...Success and celebrity have been a long time in coming to the field of superconductivity. "Until recently," says John Ketterson, a physicist at Northwestern University, "people were glum. There hadn't been a breakthrough in a long time. Funding was drying up. This has sent everyone back into the field with a new burst of enthusiasm." Although Kamerlingh Onnes envisioned early on that his discovery might pave the way for extremely powerful, compact electromagnets, he and other experimenters were stymied by a strange phenomenon: as soon as enough current was flowing through the then known superconductors (lead, tin and mercury...
...with any good musical comedy, the dancing is an integral part of the show's success. choreographer Lesley Blumenthal, who has worked on earlier Harvard hits like Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has done it again. Blumenthal displays considerable talents as a soloist, but the group dance numbers are where the production really shines. Tolins and his crew have made large production numbers possible by moving the stage to the side of the JCR, and the well-trained cast keeps the routines controlled and very lively...
Equally important for dog-racing success, says the 32-year-old Butcher, is a love of animals. "I loved animals. That was part of where my hate for society--which is what I called it then [when she was a child]--came from," Butcher says...
...also remember that the Radcliffe crest and colors can highlight the success of female scholar-athletes as women. When the rugby team or the crew team wins, no one needs to ask, "Who? The men or the women?" Both teams retain the name Radcliffe, and they look mighty sharp in black. Everyone knows that Radcliffe athletes are also Harvard students, and everyone respects them for their achievements in both areas. There is no reason to think that "Radcliffe," in any area, represents anything less than "Excellence," or, for that matter, "Harvard," This statement does no spring from any wild sentiment...
January transfers have a significantly higher success rate than fall applications. Housing Officer Lisa M. Colvin says that there are usually more students enrolled in the College in the fall because more people tend to take the spring semester off, crowding the houses in the fall...