Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown said that until she visited Israel last winter break, she hadn't felt much connection to it. But in Israel, she said she was moved by a sense of history. "I was able to touch stones that had been touched by millions of Jews over thousands of years," she said...
...mood in the room is congenial, light and social--which is exactly how BSA president Alicia E. Johnson '01 wants it. In theming this year "Rebuilding Harvard's Black Community," she and her board are getting the BSA in touch with its social side...
...still may argue that computers are not the kind of thing we should buy based on how much we like to touch their cases or admire their colorful design. I would probably agree. But adding a little color to our lives, wherever we can find it, adds another little bit of humanity and happiness. And given the amount of time I spend staring at my computer screen (and its beige box) anyway, it would be nice if it felt like a more touchable, more animated friend...
When patients discover that their "therapeutic touch" practitioner has not been manipulating their "human energy field"--a nonexistent entity--but merely making useless hand motions in the vicinity of their bodies, they will reject mysticism and move toward more rational therapy. And when herbal medicine devotees become aware that any useful ingredient in their unregulated leaves, stem and root mixtures can be isolated and made available as regulated drugs, labeled with full information about content and proper dosage, they will begin making fewer trips to the health-food store...
TOMORROW: Prosthetics wired directly to motor portions of the brain to improve control and simulate the sensations of touch, pain...