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...real significance of the verification issue goes far beyond nuclear testing. Actually, on-site inspection is not essential to a test ban, since seismic devices placed outside the Soviet Union can detect most underground nuclear explosions. The Soviets have even shown a willingness in the past to allow seismic sensors on their soil with direct satellite links to the U.S. Inspections of missile installations are a different matter, however, and have become a major sticking point of arms-control negotiations...
...camera took the best pictures I've ever seen on a phone. Of course, point-and-shoot cameras have evolved to leave even this phone's 2-megapixel output in the dust, but the snapshots I took are fine for sharing, and even for printing. I didn't detect much video noise or the strange distortions that generally plague camera-phone shots. I also liked the range of shooting options available. In fact, I'd have no problem using this as an everyday "had to be there" camera. Shooting video wasn't as rewarding, but it almost never is from...
...widow of renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould has sued three doctors at Harvard-affiliated hospitals for allegedly failing to detect a tumor that led to his death...
...tried that yet. The Swedish team is currently working on a related study to test how lesbians respond to female pheromones. Last week's paper also can't answer the question of how important a role pheromones play in desire. Conventional wisdom used to be that people could not detect them...
...films; it helped more that Dean spoke a secret language to teenagers just as they were becoming a significant marketing niche. In his bruised blond beauty, young people saw what they thought they looked like inside. What they felt like too: loser-loners whose heroism only the camera could detect. Dean's acting style was a time capsule of 1950s alienation. But his appeal, and the cult of this dying faun, spans the decades...