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...movement. Not only are dissidents seeking public attention during a period in which the U.S. is demanding that China improve its human-rights record and Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader, is fading, but the hard-line government fears a newfound boldness among the activists. The men in power detect signs that their real nightmare -- an alliance of workers and intellectuals along the lines of Poland's Solidarity that could bring together a popular force mighty enough to topple them -- may be taking shape. After all, the increasing number of workers who supported the students in Tiananmen played an important...
...recipient of these sentiments -- and of a righteous punch from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of Neurobiology, and Galaburda, chief of behavioral neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, have developed a way of diagnosing dyslexia through measuring the brain's response to certain visual stimuli. By measuring the speed of different brain waves, known as "evoked potentials," they can detect patterns characteristic of dyslexia...
...mammogram remains the best method of detection, but Keyomarsi's research may lead to a method which will detect the disease well before a mammogram...
...Breakfast!" label has already appeared on the compact disc "Detect the Mind Control Helicopters," which features seven of Harvard's alternative/punk rock bands...