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...reaction of moviegoers is no less schizophrenic. Scan their faces as they enter the theaters playing Blair Witch. The anticipation is electric; this could be a fantasy reunion concert of all four Beatles. Many in the audience are escorted by hipper acquaintances who have seen the film and are back not to watch it again but to watch their friends watch it. And though those in the know will urge people to see Blair Witch, they won't spill its secrets. (Warning: we will.) The film is a rite of passage, fraternity hazing and haunted-house trip rolled into...
Soon we're relaxed enough to think about more important things, like what music to play and where to eat. I click on upcoming exits and find the nearest Boston Market. I scan a list of local radio stations to find some easy listening. For up-to-the-minute status on how far we have to go, I just hit a key. At last, we're having...
...defy you to scan your files from the 1970s and you will never find a picture--I guarantee you--from the 1970s of people gathered to talk about education and schools in Boston who look like this," she said of the group at Menino's press conference...
...make you sick," says Dr. Robert Levine, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a co-author of both of last week's reports. Because the mitral valve is shaped like a saddle when the heart is beating--something that Levine discovered 10 years ago--an ultrasound scan can indicate a bulging of the valve where none actually exists. Since then he has determined that the front-to-back view is more reliable than the side-to-side one. (Both views are standard on ultrasound exams of the heart...
...other was an enemy, and we kept our countries and our people at arm's length. Even so, secrets slipped out. But how do you guard your nation against information-hungry friends or business partners? What do you do to keep national-security secrets when a foreign scientist can scan our unclassified journals for weapons know-how; a foreign student can work inside our top research labs; a foreign company can buy our high-performance computers, aerospace tools, telecommunications technology...