Word: raying
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...Ray Vernon possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of international trade and the economics of developing nations that contributed greatly to the expansion of Harvard's global focus in the postwar era," wrote Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in a statement. "We are grateful for the part he played in the life of Harvard, the nation and the world...
...armed Katyusha rocket (the favored artillery of the Hezbollah guerrillas for attacking northern Israeli towns). The system tracked the incoming rocket, and blew it up with an invisible laser beam created by a chemical reaction in a battlefield weapon. "This is really the first time you have a ray gun with a real-world application," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Of course it doesn't have any capacity to discriminate between different objects, it simply destroys whatever's in its path. But a lot of people are very excited about this...
Back in the 1940s, when plain old X rays were considered high tech, shoe salesclerks would often determine children's shoe size by X-raying their feet. Never mind that the same thing could have been done with a wooden ruler. Fluoroscopes, as the X-ray devices were called, were promoted as the scientific way to guarantee a proper fit. By the mid-1950s, however, it was clear that many fluoroscopes were badly maintained and ended up subjecting customers--not to mention salesclerks--to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation. Soon the machines were banned...
...Assistant Dean of HLS Allan S. Ray says that the main focus of four recent faculty appointments has been increasing the breadth of scholarship...
...Kurt Vonnegut's newest book, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, the intrepid author boldly crosses the threshold between life and death. Into the blue tunnel and through the pearly gates forges Vonnegut in search of precious interviews with post-mortems, from James Earl Ray and Eugene Victor Debs to William Shakespeare and Kilgore Trout. At the outset of this fictional narrative, the author of Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions writes "My first near-death experience was an accident, a botched anesthesia during a triple-bypass." He finds the event so fascinating that he decides to elicit...