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Just as improvements in navigational tools opened the oceans to sailing ships, so a new generation of precision instruments has exposed a breathtaking microworld to scientific exploration. Aided by computers that convert blizzards of data into images on a screen, these instruments are helping scientists see -- and even tinker with -- everything from living cells to individual atoms. "This technology is still pretty crude," marvels Chu. "Who knows what we may be able to do with it in a few years' time...
...Crimson makes note of a frequent criticism of AWARE, that many events represent simply "preaching to the converted." However, I have yet to meet an omniscient "convert" who knows all there is to know and feel about race relations. If I do, I will certainly go to his or her church...
...what is meant by "converted" is that most of the people who attend AWARE events hold some previous interest in how people of certain races or ethnicities relate to and deal with each other, well, I would hope that by this definition almost everybody on campus would call themselves a convert, and would come participate in the forums AWARE works to provide. But everybody doesn't; The Crimson very enthusiastically points out that some AWARE events are not very well attended...
...number of opportunities that he did not convert, plus, he shot terrible from the free throw line," Blaney said. Despite four consecutive successful foul shots at the end of the game, Martzloff ended a woeful 6-for-11 from the charity stripe...
Harvard failed to convert and on fourth down, Yale's Eric Drury blocked David Morgan's punt. The Crimson's second blocked punt of the game gave Yale the ball at the Harvard...