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...City Tavern, originally built in 1773, is a part of local history. The restaurant has painted, wood-paneled walls, comb-back chairs, and a staff in period costumes that should delight children. They might also feel at home with the school-cafeteria level of cooking. But for a restful lunch of a sandwich or a salad, the Tavern suffices...
...their early 30s for both men. First there was the mild stiffening of limbs and the tremors that mark the onset of Parkinson's disease. Then came the gradual loss of muscle control, leaving them prisoners in their own bodies -- mentally lucid but physically unable to eat, urinate or comb their hair without assistance. Levodopa, the most common treatment for the debilitating illness, had ceased to work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs in a remarkable experiment conducted...
...remain still. The results are displayed on twin video screens: a waving hand appears in one image as a few lines of sparkling static; in the other it is invisible. Even more sophisticated is a nearby display that has adapted an industrial vision system to scan ordinary objects like combs, keys and coins. As long as the objects are correctly positioned beneath the camera, the computer easily identifies them. "I see a comb. Am I right?" it asks coyly...
...move the party to the center. His particular target these days is the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate elected officials mostly from the South and West. Jackson sneers that its initials, D.L.C., stand for Democrats for the Leisure Class. It is composed, he says, of "Democrats who comb their hair to the left like Kennedy and move their policies to the right like Reagan...
...doesn't do nothing 'cept watch you as you drift down the drainage ditch. Floating, you can see an old man on the shore, touching up his hair with a two-bit comb, jawing on a wad of fresh Bazooka...