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  <description><![CDATA[Honorable Mention: Sunset in the Lab: The Tyndall-Rayleigh experiment. White light from a slide projector shines a tank of water to which photographic fixing powder and dilute sulfuric acid are added. <i>Juan Carlos Barreiro optics department, University of Valencia, Spain</i>]]>
  
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  <description><![CDATA[Honorable Mention: A 633-nm laser coupled into a microsphere resonant cavity. Due to surface defects on the cavity, the light is scattering out of the cavity. <i>Andrea M. Armani and Maria Chistiakova University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.</i>]]>
  
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  <description><![CDATA[Rainbow in southwest desert; colors are intense.<i>Gail M. Overton, Editor, PennWell, Winterhaven, Calif.</i>]]>
  
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  <description><![CDATA[Same rainbow as darkness falls.<i>Gail M. Overton, Editor, PennWell, Winterhaven, Calif.</i>]]>
  
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