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Lysander (George Corbett) and Hermia (Laura Wood) share a tender moment in Cambridge University's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

The British are coming

September 24, 2003

Bustani seminars focus on Mideast

September 24, 2003

Emerging technologies include hydrogen cars, biocomputing

September 23, 2003

Dancer Alexandra Beller is a "dance goddess ... a woman of substance who moves like mercury," wrote one critic.

Dancer visits MIT

September 17, 2003

Buddhist monks gather outside Kresge Auditorium.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Monk links mental imagery, meditation

September 17, 2003

Monica de Silva of Antwerp, Belgium, plays the recurring dream character Uda in "Somnambulations."

Dreamy exhibit on view at Rotch Library

September 17, 2003

The Dalai Lama was given a tour of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research by biology professor Eric Lander (right), head of the Genome Center and the Broad Institute. Yama Chompel (left) a Tibetan, instructs the Dalai Lama in pipetting isopropel into mouse DNA in the lab. Next to the Dalai Lama is his translator, Thupton Jinpa.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Buddhism, science share curiosity about the world

September 17, 2003

"If he were not a monk, he would have liked to have been an engineer."

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Tibet leader sounds playful note in serious pursuits

September 17, 2003

During a discussion of mental imagery that was part of a two-day conference at MIT featuring the Dalai Lama and prominent scientists, Stephen M. Kosslyn of Harvard asked the Dalai Lama what he saw in this sketch, pointing out that some people see a duck while others see a rabbit. The Dalai Lama saw both.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Dalai Lama notes potential of science

September 17, 2003

The Dalai Lama, left, is greeted by MIT President Charles M. Vest, center, and Phillip A. Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, which co-sponsored the event with the Mind and Life Institute.

Dalai Lama sounds playful note in serious pursuits

September 16, 2003

Relics from Buddhist masters throughout the centuries. At center is a hair from His Holiness the Dalai Lama (b. 1935), which is considered a holy object rather than a relic.

Buddhist relics are full of spirit

September 11, 2003

Science to meet religion in Kresge

September 10, 2003

Hindustani instrumentals

September 10, 2003

Scientists and students from around the world gathered in Crete, Greece, this summer for a workshop on self-assembling peptides and proteins. Many of the group took an afternoon trip to Knossos, the architectural ruins of a Minoan palace inhabited in 1450 B.C.

Special bond links scientists and their peptides

New scientific field poised for widespread applications

September 3, 2003

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