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...cottage cheese one day, sardines and milk the next, and liver and onions the day after that. From April 1966 to October 1988, Proxmire cast 10,261 consecutive votes, the record up to that point. Every staff member lived in constant fear of being the one who failed to alert him to a roll call in time for him to make the vote. He was also a dogged advocate of causes in which he believed: In 1967, Proxmire gave the first of an eventual 3,000 speeches pestering the Senate to adopt the international Genocide Convention, which was finally ratified...
...criminal justice database, which has a record of all the crimes committed in Cambridge, Mass., and in other states. If the callers have any infractions—from revoked driver’s licenses to warrants for their arrest—the dispatcher will know immediately and alert the police...
...Getting Inside Your Head," you reported on scanning techniques that help determine how our brains work. You noted that corporate marketers could use neuroimaging technology to scan people's brain functions as new products are tested. Philosophers and theologians should be alert to those innovative methods for looking inside how the mind works. Those who grapple with the interrelation of mind, soul and body must consider more seriously the implications of the latest information available in brain research. Harvey Bollich Lafayette, Louisiana...
Malick is the movies' foremost naturalist. His films are uniquely alert to the earth's sights, sounds and textures. Shooting without artificial light, capturing the rush of wind and the rustle of birds, he turns each location into an artful landscape, each image into a snapshot of a new world. So the meeting of Englishman John Smith and Algonquian princess Pocahontas is a fit subject for Malick--just his fourth film in 32 years, after Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line...
...Torture of a Prisoner Your piece on Iraqi prisoner Manadel Al-Jamadi, nicknamed the Iceman, who died at Abu Ghraib while in U.S. custody, should alert all conscientious Americans that a gestapo-style secret police is operating in our society [Nov. 21]. The CIA orders unannounced midnight abductions of suspected insurgents and tortures prisoners, sometimes to death. Your article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened...