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...Friday, the government filed a successful motion to have Lasaga's bond revoked, claiming that he had obstructed justice and violated state law and the conditions of his bail bond by "surreptitiously" accessing computer files belonging to a potential witness in the federal case, according to Kari A. Dooley, senior litigation counsel for the U.S. Attorney's Office...
...surer than the competition. The old gangster movies gave us opposite versions of the same character. Little Caesar is simply an illegal Lone Ranger, with the added element of success in the free market. In more recent movies, guns are displayed as art objects, people die in balletic slow motion, and right prevails if you own "the most powerful handgun in the world." I doubt that any of this nonsense causes violence, but after decades of repetition, it does invoke boredom. And while I can't prove it, I would bet that gun-violence entertainment will soon pass too, because...
...might have mentioned that a new group was gathering in the local park to do a form of traditional qigong exercises. One morning you found them, 20 or 30 people, under the yellow-and-red banner of Falun Gong--the Law of the Wheel Breathing Exercise--doing the slow-motion exercises to music from a tape recorder. There was no fee, no formal teaching--they just invited you to join in and copy their movements...
...created by digital artists Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser. Employing the techniques used to create such video-game characters and animations as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft and the dancing baby Ally McBeal, Eshkar and Kaiser fine-tuned the process to capture precise dance steps. To start, they used motion-capture technology to record the movements of a live dancer with digital video cameras. They then used 3-D animation software called Character Studio and 3D Studio Max to map the movements onto their own digital drawings and render the final, ghostlike images. The finished video is projected onto...
...long hours at the keyboard, carpal-tunnel syndrome, seems to be more common than originally thought. As many as 1 in 5 people who complain of tingling in their hands may have the ailment. The condition, which is a form of repetitive-stress injury, frequently occurs when the same motion is repeated over and over, compressing a nerve in the wrist, with all the painful consequences...