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...issue is a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Walt Disney Co. by the estate of a 23-year-old woman from Spain who died of a brain hemorrhage sustained on the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. "I'm pushing to have the amusement parks warn unsuspecting guests that even if they believe they are in good health, there is a risk they could suffer a serious injury," says her attorney, Barry Novack. Theme-park officials are not atingle at the prospect of being lumped with common carriers. "We're in the business of thrilling people and having excitement," says...
...advising Hollywood starlets on their makeovers but concentrating on the far less glamorous--but more commercially viable--task of spotting defects on electronics boards before they end up in faulty cell phones or computers. Imagen's software is programmed to recognize patterns in much the same way the human brain learns to distinguish classes of objects (say, faces) as well as specific objects in that class--like your best friend's face. That's done by teaching the software, through trial and error, the common patterns that all faces share plus the specific patterns that make your best friend...
Beverly Cooper Moore Jr., a major leader in the movement for class action suits known for his honesty and integrity, died on Nov. 24 of a blood clot to the brain...
...zebrafish looks like any other run of the mill aquarium-inhabitant—a small, glittery swimmer suited to the fishbowl world of a childhood pet. But to Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling, this fish represents a living window into the complex interactions between vision and the brain...
...long been interested in the visual system,” Dowling says. He has always used the retina as a model for research in the brain, in part due to the variety of cells involved in retinal actions. Aside from photoreceptors, five other types of neurons in the retina connect with the brain to help start the process of visual imaging...