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...searched each facility for recording devices. In lobbies, moviegoers were siphoned through metal detectors. Camera phones were confiscated. As the lights went down and Cruise and his movie-star teeth flickered onto the screen, men and women in dark blazers walked solemnly down the aisles, searching for the pale glow of camcorders through their night-vision goggles. Maybe because this was Los Angeles, the moviegoers didn't seem to notice the paramilitary scene unfolding beside their military fiction...
...glow." Carrie Bradshaw and her Sex and the City trio may be the champions of detecting it, getting it and keeping it, but you don't need a closetful of Prada to appreciate the rosy radiance that follows a pleasant sexual encounter. The fact is, sex leaves its mark, not just on the mind but on the body as well. Researchers have begun to explore its effects on almost every part of the body, from the brain to the heart to the immune system...
...fMRI machine that we were using shows only blood-flow activity in specific brain regions rather than the chemicals involved. But because scientists know which kinds of nerves connect which kinds of brain regions, they can often surmise which brain chemicals are active when specific regions begin to glow...
...Boston area. But beyond the necessary long-term love-affair with Gore-Tex, the snowstorms have their benefits. Boston and its environs are a veritable fantasyland of wintry treats. So make like a Christmas chocolate box with these sweet-as-candy winter escapades that will put a glow in your cheek and a spring in your (snow-shoed) step...
Want to add some pizazz to your aquarium? A Taiwanese scientist has devised a way to make otherwise colorless fish glow neon green in the dark. Professor H.J. Tsai at National Taiwan University works this biological magic by injecting a protein extracted from jellyfish into the fertilized eggs of rice fish. He also uses a protein from coral to make fish glow a vibrant reddish pink. Opponents of genetic engineering fear that these creatures could crossbreed with wild species, creating glowing schools of Frankenfish. To keep them from spreading their shining DNA, the distributor, Taikong International, sterilizes them...