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...would be, that is, if not for the neurotransmitters. These chemicals are stored in tiny sacs known as vesicles, located at nerve endings. When an electrical signal reaches the vesicles, they release their load. The neurotransmitter molecules navigate across the synapse and lock into receptors on the neighboring nerve cell--an action roughly equivalent to flipping on a light switch. The second nerve cell wakes up and sends off a jolt of electricity to pass the message along. Their job completed, the neurotransmitter molecules detach and are ferried back to be reabsorbed or destroyed...
...private detectives turned it all over to police, and on March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk. The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A human hand...
That's just a fluke. What's not is Alley's 21-in., fraz-glam star quality. It's more than the exotic eyes and that falling lock of hair she is forever brushing back (35 times in the first 22-minute episode). Her dusky voice can surge into exasperation or giddify into girlish vamping. Best of all, she knows that TV comedy doesn't need pushing; a joke can be caressed into a jewel. Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary, Alley has a shot at being TV's all-time funny woman. Funny in italics. Woman...
...media world with the news that it will swallow CompuServe, the nation's oldest online service, and its 2.6 million members. As part of the deal, AOL sealed a long-term pact with WorldCom, a telephone company based in Jackson, Miss., with scads of capacity, that will help AOL lock in access to phone lines at low rates for the next five years--and probably boost profits. In the three-way agreement, WorldCom bought CompuServe and then handed AOL the online company's 2.6 million subscribers in exchange for AOL's networking and Internet-access division, called...
...electricity but was without water. Belying reports he was dressed as a woman, he had a few days' stubble on his face. And then, at 3:30 p.m. on July 23, caretaker Fernando Carreira and his wife came by to check on the houseboat. They noticed that the wrong lock was secured, and Carreira drew his gun. He then heard a shot, ran out and, while watching the door, eventually got his son to call the police. They descended in force, complete with tear-gas-launching SWAT teams. Bullhorns brayed, "Andrew, come out, the whole world is watching!" By then...