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...recent Wednesday night, Eleanor Phipp spent an hour watching commercial television. Nothing unusual about that - except that Phipp, 30, was in a dark room at a south London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners - which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity - are mainly used to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized for decidedly nonmedical reasons. Researchers were monitoring how it reacted...
Cheney is not the first political heavyweight to hold forth at the Harvard Club. According to the club's website, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, William Taft, and John Foster Dulles have all been visitors...
...Ocean Springs businesswoman Eleanor "Cissy" Jordan lost 45 rental houses and a commercial building, all bought on The Point by her grandfather, a Lebanese immigrant who came to Biloxi in 1926. Losing them wiped out 90% of her income. "The casinos are the only entertainment game in town for those of us who have been through so much emotionally over the past year," says Jordan...
...girlfriend as "my special lady." (That his special lady is 40 years younger upholds another show-biz tradition.) Bennett is at his most reactionary when it comes to making music. Since 1970's disastrous Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!, which featured a Shatneresque take on Eleanor Rigby, he has clung to the great American songbook and insisted on recording with live musicians. If he's doing a duet, he wants his partner singing with him live on a single take--an almost unheard-of level of fussiness in an era when voices are spliced and diced and singers...
Collins' life, although told many times in the press during the genome race, remains appealingly weird and inspiring. He was born on an outhouse-equipped Virginia "dirt farm" - but his Yale-educated parents had earlier returned to the land as part of a rural-community experiment under Eleanor Roosevelt's patronage. Home-schooled and solitary, their brilliant fourth son pursued his inclinations through a Yale dissertation on quantum mechanics - but then swerved, first to an M.D. and next to the field of genetics, whose astonishing precision and lifesaving potential were becoming manifest...