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Mykhaylenko was recently moved to a lighter security psychiatric hospital in her hometown, Fuchs said...
...timing device and incendiary device were used to ignite the fire, which occurred about 3:30 a.m. on December 26, said Kenneth Clark of the Cambridge Fire Investigation Unit. The device consisted of "a kitchen timer wired to barbecue lighter fluid," said Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief John Gelinas...
...voice difficulties are often told to avoid mucus-producing foods like milk and cheese. Technique may also be modified. Eric Jensen, a jazz guitarist in San Francisco with persistent pain in his left arm, was advised to shorten the scale lengths on the neck of the instrument and use lighter strings...
...measurements of the brain's electrical output, made by attaching electrodes to the head, show that the brain is almost 90 percent more active during REM sleep than at any other slumber time. The normal human passes through five distinct stages of sleep, with the REM stage following the lighter, first two stages. Sleep stages three and four--following REM chronologically--are deep sleep periods...
...white movies are colorized. But instead of assigning colors to each pixel, the computer assigns each dot a number according to how light or dark it is. Thus on a scale of one to ten, a dark smudge or scratch might be assigned a nine or ten, while a lighter stroke becomes a five or six. These numbers can then be manipulated to filter out "noise" and bring out hidden features in the text. For example, all the pixels with high numbers can be changed to zeros to make them disappear, while the lighter pixels representing parts of actual letters...