Word: instruments
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...murder, all right. not much doubt about that anymore. Not after the CT-scan boys at Johns Hopkins got through with the cadaver. Severe blow to the skull with a blunt instrument. Massive internal bleeding. Maybe drugged first. Victim was a female Native American. Probably 12 to 14 years old. Well dressed: had a fancy alpaca dress, striped, and a nice shawl. Silver pin. In pretty good health--"Best set of teeth I've seen in a long time," says Elliot Fishman, a Hopkins doc--until she turned up dead, of course. Been cold for a while when they found...
...right instrument on it, then I'll use it," he says. "It will be very useful for many people in the department...
...NASA operates a significant number of astronomical things like the Hubble Space Telescope," says Kirshner. "People here, because they are active scientists, are really engaged in using the instrument...
...according to real-life storm chasers (some of whom acted as scientific consultants on the film). They speculate, though, that most of the flying transmitters would be blown away from the vortex or destroyed by debris. Over the years, researchers have proposed all sorts of zany schemes for getting instruments into a tornado's heart, including blasting at the twister with instrumented rockets and probing it with pilotless planes. One day, no doubt, someone will try building a Dorothy-like instrument--and may even manage to make it work...
...special effects that the kid in all of us can get off on. Such story as the screenplay provides (an estranged couple of meteorologists, played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, bicker their way toward reconciliation while chasing storms in an effort to test a new measuring instrument) is also an emotional low-pressure zone...