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...small town in England, Sleepy Hollow is overwhelmingly gray. It takes some getting used to, as all of Burtons fantasies do, but after about ten minutes of acclimation, the setting takes shape, and you come to appreciate the brilliant construction of the town and the landscape. Corn fields shrink in the shadow of freaky-looking scarecrows, an old mansion looms over a hill in the distance, and twisted trees tower above the woods carpetted with dead leaves. Burton does a fabulous job of creating grim, dark, fearful settings. He really brings Sleepy Hollow to life--or, at least...
...could shrink the world's population [WORLD, Oct. 18] to a village of 100 people, maintaining all the existing ratios, the village would look like this: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the western hemisphere (North, Central and South America) and 8 Africans. Seventy of the 100 would be nonwhite. Seventy would be non-Christian. Six people would control 50% of the world's wealth, and all of them would be citizens of the U.S. Seventy people would be unable to read, more than half would suffer from malnutrition and 80 would live in substandard housing. Only...
...whole different matter. But current trends suggest that the most dramatic changes in medical care in the next 20 or 30 years will spring from a growing reliance on "smart" technology. Computer chips will become ever faster, smaller and less expensive. Medical instruments and sensors will continue to shrink. (One that already has is the formerly big, lumbering machine needed for radiation treatment; today mobile electron accelerators are portable enough to be used during some cancer operations, reducing the number of healthy cells that are damaged...
...inside of the Science Center resembles a fun house, with its giant lenses and stretch and shrink mirrors. But for many, the outside revolving doors turn it into a House of Horror. Smudges of oil from smashed foreheads and noses cover its clear plastic sides like battle scars. Just this year, a freshman was wedged with a package half way in the door. When people enter with conflicting speeds, riders are forced to leap out to escape, and many end up bruising their heels and (the horror!) sharing one of the four compartments with a stranger. "I've seen...
Endostatin is the first of several anti-cancer drugs under evaluation which prevent angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels in the body. Doctors hope that, by stopping the growth of blood vessels around a cancerous tumor, the drug can shrink tumors and prevent the cancer from spreading...