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...Caribbean eye patch for a fur hat, Miami Vice director Michael Mann has taken on a competing project, Death of a Dissident, a book co-written by Litvinenko's widow. With all that talk of polonium 210 in the air, the race to make it to the box office first could get dangerous...
...psychoactive drugs like Ritalin and Prozac are already manipulating brain function in millions of people. And future pharmaceuticals, Farah says, targeting very specific parts of the brain, will be even more effective and will have fewer side effects. These new brain-control tools open a Pandora's box of ethical and philosophical dilemmas, including what kind of society--and what kinds of selves--we want...
...players for a rest. And yet, the Crimson effectively prevented Dartmouth from scoring.“Special teams became a huge factor, both for Dartmouth and for us staving off their powerplay at the end,” Stone said. “We made a decision to box it up after the second period if we were on a kill again. Just because they were getting stuff inside that was too tough to handle and we weren’t reading the back door play very well. We decided to give ourselves a little bit more support by playing...
...term alone) fall into this category: when he doesn't want to veto a law, he just asserts that it doesn't apply to him. Biotech entrepreneur Paul Abrams proposes that if the law funding embryonic stem cell research survives a Bush veto, Congress should allow for another little box on tax returns letting people check off whether they agree for their tax dollars to be used for research. "This mechanism would provide active acknowledgement of people's deeply held views," he argues, "without compromising hESC research and development...
...mail by ear, blindly, like an eyeless cave creature. On the iPhone you see all your messages laid out visually, onscreen, labeled by caller. If you want to hear one, you touch it. Done. Now try a text message: instead of jumbling them all together in your In box, iPhone arranges your texts by recipient, as threaded conversations made of little jewel-like bubbles. And instead of "typing" on a three-by-four number keypad, you get a display of a full, usable QWERTY keyboard. You will never again have to hit the 7 key four times to type...