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Shares of Bedford's GSI Group Inc. rose amid first-quarter earnings of 4 cents per share, compared to 19 cents in 2011's first period. The most recent quarter included $2.7 million of restructuring costs. Revenue came in at $78.8 million, a decrease from $91.9 million last year. "We delivered solid financial results despite continued weak conditions in the microelectronics markets and some minor disruptions associated with our 12x12 consolidation program," said CEO John Roush. "Orders were strong in the quarter and have remained so thus far in the second quarter.

CONCORD, N.H. - Laser-equipped aircraft have been scanning the New Hampshire landscape, creating high-resolution topographical maps that could help the state with everything from emergency preparedness to the expansion of wireless broadband. So far, data covering 900 square miles of eastern New Hampshire has been gathered by planes carrying lasers that emit thousands of pulses of red light per second to calculate the distance from the aircraft to the ground. The resulting maps show the elevation and shape of the landscape as if stripped of all trees and buildings, and are part of a...

Yes, but the results vary, depending on the kind of laser used. One approach, discovered in a small study of 31 patients, is to use a "nonablative," or nondamaging, laser. Doctors found that patients who were getting a full-face treatment emerged with somewhat tighter upper and lower eyelids, although that was not the purpose of the treatment. The procedure seemed to stimulate new collagen formation, which in turn tightens up eyelid skin, although in many cases only slightly, reported Dr. Roy G. Geronemus of the Laser & Skin Surgery Center of New York.

Shares of Bedford's GSI Group Inc. rose amid first-quarter earnings of 4 cents per share, compared to 19 cents in 2011's first period. The most recent quarter included $2.7 million of restructuring costs. Revenue came in at $78.8 million, a decrease from $91.9 million last year. "We delivered solid financial results despite continued weak conditions in the microelectronics markets and some minor disruptions associated with our 12x12 consolidation program," said CEO John Roush. "Orders were strong in the quarter and have remained so thus far in the second quarter.

Movies like “The Kids Are All Right’’ — beautifully written, impeccably played, funny and randy and true — don’t come along very often. It’s even better when they pop up in the middle of the summer silly season like an unexpected breeze. A comedy of boho-bourgeois manners, Lisa Cholodenko’s latest — it belatedly follows 1998’s “High Art’’ and 2002’s “Laurel Canyon’’ — is this close to a masterpiece, and it skewers the aggressively sensitive parenting styles of West Coast couples (and, cough , certain Boston suburbs)

Iran's state TV is reporting the country has produced laser-guided artillery shells, capable of hitting moving targets with high accuracy. The Monday report quoting Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi also says that the shell was an "intelligent" munition with the capability to identify its own targets. The report was accompanied by footage showing an artillery piece firing a shell, followed by an explosion in the desert. The report does not give details on specifications of the shell.

A Winthrop father who is accused of shining a green laser beam at players during a girls' high school hockey game will be charged with disturbing the peace, the Suffolk district attorney's office said Tuesday. Joseph Cordes, 42, stood alone in an upper corner of the bleachers at Larsen Rink in Winthrop during a Feb. 29 playoff game between Medway-Ashland and Winthrop High School, pointing a laser at the Medway-Ashland goalie, the district attorney's office said. A call to Cordes was not answered Tuesday.

By Bob Holmes, Globe Staff An adult who used a hand-held laser in an attempt to distract Medway/Ashland girls' hockey players, including goalie Kathryn Hamer, has been barred from any future Winthrop athletic events. But the score of the game, 3-1 in Winthrop's favor, isn't subject to appeal and the game is official. "As far as we can determine it didn't impact the game at all," said tournament director Barry Haley. "This was an adult. It wasn't a student. I want to compliment [Winthrop athletic director]

Would you be tempted to head into a high-end salon for a chemical peel or Botox shot for wrinkles? How about trying one of those new body-contouring devices advertised to shrink fat without pain or incisions? The number of medical spas - hybrids of medical clinics and day spas - have grown by 80 percent in the past two years and is now up to an estimated 4,250 nationally, according to the International Medical Spa Association. That's partly due to an increasing array of cosmetic procedures that look easy enough to perform without medical training - but often are not. "A lot...

Above your head, the dome swathed in fuchsia dims to dark. Thousands of stars emerge and begin to faintly pulse. Poised in the round room’s center, a black, sinister, pod-like device awaits, ready to obliterate the audience. You don’t have to surrender, nor take it to your leader. Instead of blasting away with laser beams, this rotating contraption comes in peace — taking viewers on an impressively-synchronized cosmic trip from our own solar system through the Milky Way, and way, way, beyond (dude)

A Winthrop father who is accused of shining a green laser beam at players during a girls' high school hockey game will be charged with disturbing the peace, the Suffolk district attorney's office said Tuesday. Joseph Cordes, 42, stood alone in an upper corner of the bleachers at Larsen Rink in Winthrop during a Feb. 29 playoff game between Medway-Ashland and Winthrop High School, pointing a laser at the Medway-Ashland goalie, the district attorney's office said. A call to Cordes was not answered Tuesday.

A spokesman for the governing body of high school sports in Massachusetts says a girls tournament hockey game likely won't be replayed even though the parent of a player on one team is accused of aiming a laser pointer into the eyes of the opposing goalie. Winthrop beat Medway/Ashland 3-1 on Wednesday. The score was tied 1-1 in the third period when the father of a Winthrop player was caught pointing the laser at the Medway/Ashland goalie. Winthrop assistant superintendent Lisa Howard went into the stands and ordered the parent out of the arena.

By Bob Holmes, Globe Staff An adult who used a hand-held laser in an attempt to distract Medway/Ashland girls' hockey players, including goalie Kathryn Hamer, has been barred from any future Winthrop athletic events. But the score of the game, 3-1 in Winthrop's favor, isn't subject to appeal and the game is official. "As far as we can determine it didn't impact the game at all," said tournament director Barry Haley. "This was an adult. It wasn't a student. I want to compliment [Winthrop athletic director]

The Pentagon has mothballed a laser-equipped jumbo jet after 15 years and $5 billion worth of research to develop an airborne missile defense system. Budget cuts shot down the Airborne Laser Test Bed but some research into anti-missile lasers will continue, according to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. "We didn't have the funding to continue flying the aircraft," agency spokeswoman Debra Christman told the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/xEnw3z). The plane, a Boeing 747 mounted with a high-energy chemical laser, has been sent into storage at Davis...

Iran's state TV is reporting the country has produced laser-guided artillery shells, capable of hitting moving targets with high accuracy. The Monday report quoting Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi also says that the shell was an "intelligent" munition with the capability to identify its own targets. The report was accompanied by footage showing an artillery piece firing a shell, followed by an explosion in the desert. The report does not give details on specifications of the shell.

Would you be tempted to head into a high-end salon for a chemical peel or Botox shot for wrinkles? How about trying one of those new body-contouring devices advertised to shrink fat without pain or incisions? The number of medical spas - hybrids of medical clinics and day spas - have grown by 80 percent in the past two years and is now up to an estimated 4,250 nationally, according to the International Medical Spa Association. That's partly due to an increasing array of cosmetic procedures that look easy enough to perform without medical training - but often are not. "A lot of people assume that the...

Raytheon Co. said Wednesday that it received a $24 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for Paveway II laser-guided bomb components. The contract, which was competitively awarded, represents the majority of the Air Force's laser-guided bomb buy for overseas contingency operations, the defense contractor said. Raytheon's Paveway systems are designed to upgrade bombs into precision-guided weapons using laser and global-positioning guidance systems. Separately on Wednesday, Raytheon said it received a $14.6 million contract to develop new image processing technology for the...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Robert Wegman, a pioneer of one-stop shopping who transformed his family's business into one of the nation's largest private companies, died April 20. He was 87. Mr. Wegman took over as president of the business begun by his father and uncle in 1950 and over decades introduced private-label products and laser scanning at the checkout. He is credited with pioneering one-stop shopping, placing bakeries, imported foods, and cafes into huge stores, along with photo labs, video departments, and child play centers.

Browns kicker Phil Dawson stood in front of his locker and lectured like a calculus professor at Harvard. Breaking down the various elements needed to make a field goal — angle, speed, trajectory, and the probability of an oblong football sailing through tricky winds and between stationary uprights — Dawson caught the attention of linebacker Scott Fujita, his well-read teammate who earned two degrees at Cal-Berkeley. "John Nash, everyone," Fujita said with a laugh and comparing Dawson to the famed mathematician and subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind.

Authorities say someone has been aiming laser beams at aircraft in Georgia, and officers are investigating. The pilot of a UPS Inc. plane reported being flashed recently by a green laser beam shot toward his plane as it headed toward the airport in the south Georgia town of Statesboro. UPS is the world's largest shipping carrier. The Statesboro Herald reports (http://bit.ly/v9H7jp) that Bulloch County sheriff's officials also indicate that an Air Evac helicopter pilot recently reported a similar incident.