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According to an officer on the scene, the suspects will each be charged with assault with intent to rob and disorderly conduct...
...harsh sounds it sometimes produced. A stricter observance of tempi would also have been in order; this was Chopin, not Debussy. In any case the risks he took at high speeds were admirable, and his confident, blind leaps across three octaves are a reproach to showier pianists who conduct their business at unnecessary altitudes above the keyboard. The Three Mazurkas Op. 56 were a satisfying palate cleanser, so to speak. The first sounded at one moment like the bustling "Of Foreign Lands and Peoples" from Schumann's "Scenes from Childhood," and the second had the robust smack of Schubert laendler...
BETTER THAN A BIOPSY The FDA has approved a handheld imaging device that can help doctors decide whether to perform a biopsy when the results of a mammogram are ambiguous. The device, called T-Scan 2000, sends a tiny jolt of electricity to suspicious breast tissue; potentially malignant cells conduct electricity differently than normal cells do. T-Scan is not meant to replace a mammogram, but it may prevent some 200,000 unnecessary biopsies a year...
...Orioles have also sought to asphyxiate the spirit of the game by preventing fans from chanting. The team has announced that "strict guide-lines for fan conduct will be enforced, and fans may be asked to leave, even for chanting, if it disturbs other fans." No "hey, batter, batter"? No chants of "U.S.A., U.S.A.?" What's an international baseball game without a little jingoism? (One wonders whether chants impugning the virtue of the umpire's female relatives--in a completely apolitical manner, of course--would fall under the guideline...
...Premise An update of Robert Wise's 1963 classic, The Haunting of Hill House, based on the novel of the same title by Shirley Jackson. A professor brings three people to the frightening and neurotic Hill House in order to conduct a psychological experiment. But apparently, Hill House has its own psychological problems...