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...student, Paul C. Scatena, was researching phantom pain--the burning sensation that patients sometimes feel when a limb has been amputated. He noticed inaccuracies in three of Frazier's articles, as well as similarities to previously published work...
COMPOSER Andrew Lloyd Webber has a knack for turning the most unlikely subjects into inexplicably successful rock/pop operas. Jesus Christ, T.S. Eliot's cats, roller-skating trains, the Phantom of the Opera. And Argentine actress/first lady Eva Peron. Adam Fratto, who directed last year's Lowell House opera, bucks convention by having a rock ensemble, instead of the traditional string orchestra, play the rock-inspired score. Why has no one thought of this before...
Still, a majority of House members reached for this fig leaf. They voted to kill the Brady amendment and replace it with McCollum's phantom plan. Even leading Democrats from states where the N.R.A. is strong, like House Majority Leader Tom Foley of Washington and House Whip Tony Coelho of California, supported the gun lobby. They contended, as has George Bush, who boasts that he is a life member of the N.R.A., that such restrictive legislation should be left to the states. But only 22 states require waiting periods. A gun buyer in a hurry need only cross a state...
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! Yes, it's definitely a plane, and it's the talk of Paris. Since midsummer, a phantom pilot has taken to the night sky at least three times, flouting aviation regulations by cruising several hundred feet above Notre Dame, the Place de la Concorde and other monuments. Police have been scanning the night skies with infrared binoculars to find "the Black Baron," as journalists have dubbed the aviator...
...into the sunlight together. The Soviet army's Major Onischenko came forever to be known as Disonischenko after the fencing segment of the modern pentathlon, when a battery was discovered in his nose cone. Like a burp at a banquet, Boris' epee went off by itself and beeped a phantom touche. The major was briskly spirited away to the U.S.S.R...