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...they can read CDs, remove tattoos and repair detached retinas. But in 1960, when physicist Theodore Maiman unveiled the first working laser at a New York City news conference, only a few grasped the device's potential. The trick to creating the tiny, potent pink force that won him world fame: selecting as his medium synthetic rubies, which had been dismissed by many scientists, and using pulsing, rather than continuous, light...
Mahler also played an integral role in the team’s success, assisting on four of the Crimson’s scores to go along with one goal. Senior attackman Evan Calvert had a hat trick and an assist, while junior attackman Brooks Scholl had two goals and two assists...
...Girard documents-forlorn carcasses cowering below towers of concrete and glass-have already been demolished. Understanding this lends the photos a nostalgic resonance, a sense that we are witnessing what novelist William Gibson, in his foreword to the book, calls "the actual vanishing, the hideous 21st-century urban hat trick...
There’s no question that the three words Simmons wants to bleep cause pain and perpetuate negative stereotypes. But so do “whore,” “trick,” “chickenhead,” and the dozens of other demeaning names many rappers call women in their songs. Why didn’t Simmons request the removal of those words, too? And what about anti-gay epithets? Does Simmons think they are less hurtful than anti-woman epithets? (If you’ve seen Byron Hurt’s excellent...
...change of setting is a time-honored way to make classic plays seem fresh. But even though this trick has been done countless times before, this weekend’s production of “The Way of the World” might shock some with the unlikeliness of its juxtaposition—this Restoration comedy has been painstakingly uprooted and set down in the middle of the 1980s. Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 directs William Congreve’s most famous play, going up in the Loeb Mainstage on April 27 and playing during Arts First weekend...