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...Even the holy grail of optics, invisibility, was nearly achieved this summer by researchers at University of California at Berkeley. Beforehand, scientists had only been able to bend longer waves, like radiowaves, around objects. The Berkeley team was able to engineer superior “metamaterials,” made from a fishnet-like lattice of metals, which could bend visible light around an object with little noticeable disruption. The process is still expensive, but the strategic benefits to the Army, which provided the funding, are obvious...
...think Harvard was the most enjoyable thing [my father] ever did,” Hannah says. “When I would be at Harvard, I would be aware that this is the place. This place is very special...When I was painting the Harvard boathouse this summer, which I did from contemporary photographs, they were distilled by my memories and feelings at Harvard.” “Iconography of Harvard is an aspect of his own childhood—a part of his emotional life,” Wronoski says. “Harvard...
...creative offerings [in fashion] at Harvard,” he says while multi-tasking at a model fitting. Parent also believed students were generally apathetic toward fashion, a problem he seeks to rectify. Enter Project East, an idea he and Kristin S. Kim ’09 conceived the summer after their freshman year. “We saw these great designers in Korea and started thinking about other designers in America that we knew,” he says. “We thought it would be a cool juxtaposition of Harvard and these designers since it?...
...with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue. Its graceful mix of cutting-edge, environmentally conscious modern architecture and classic parks and buildings has actually given it a reputation as a model of a 21st-century metropolis, which the city is hoping to use to help land the 2016 Summer Olympics...
Hannah Jones' leukemia was diagnosed when she was 4. She later developed heart disease and has endured chemotherapy and nearly a dozen operations. This past summer, when doctors told her that without a heart transplant she'd be dead in six months, she refused to go through with it. "I've been in hospital too much - I've had too much trauma," she told the Guardian. She was not asserting a right to die; she was suggesting that she had a right to live on her own terms and to decide whether the benefit was worth the cost...