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...tons Amount of cocaine Costa Rican authorities seized last week from smugglers in a 49-ft. low-riding speedboat--originally reported to be a submarine--covered in lead laminate to avoid radar detection and camouflaged in ocean-colored fiber glass...
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...eyewear, developed by M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory, has a tiny name-storage device that picks up the identification signal cell phones emit and then searches its database to see if a name matches. A miniprojector on the stem flashes the name of the friend or relative encountered on the glass lens for one two-hundredth of a second--so fast it isn't noticeable, yet lab tests have shown the subliminal prompt is enough to improve name recall by 50%. In the prototype, wearers must carry a battery wired to the glasses, but eventually a wireless system will be available...
...fact that the diet favored by the Greeks is good for the heart seems as ancient as Greece itself. But now the Mediterranean diet--high in fruit, vegetables, cereals, fish, olive oil and topped with a glass or two of wine daily--has been linked to a lower risk for Alzheimer's, even in patients with vascular disease. When researchers from Columbia University Medical Center scored the diets of nearly 2,000 subjects on a 0-to-9 scale--depending on their adherence to a Mediterranean-style food plan--each additional point on the scale corresponded...
...foyer's slanted mosaic pillars and silver leaflike lights are a metaphor for the trees under which Africans traditionally resolve legal disputes. In the sunken courtroom, a ribbon of glass at street level ensures that justice is always visible to those it should protect. And dividing this potent symbol of equality from the relics of apartheid are the Great African Steps, built with 150,000 bricks from the demolished cellblock. Rarely does the phrase "out of darkness comes light" have so much resonance. constitutionhill.org.za