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...sir, I just saw it happen sir. I’m just a fucking bystander, sir,” Pring-Wilson said...
...dizzying, it's the first show ever to give me motion sickness. Gee-whiz technology has its place in the theater, but here it often distracts from a serious tale of three wronged women. Apart from the titular woman in white, who is justly terrified of dastardly Sir Percival Glyde, there are the plucky Marian and her sister Laura, who are abused by the very same Glyde and his flamboyant Italian accomplice, Count Fosco. Among the country mansions and shadowy villages of Hampshire and Cumberland, the three find their fates terrifyingly entwined. Where Lloyd Webber scores is with the score...
...DIED. SIR GODFREY HOUNSFIELD, 84, British electrical engineer who invented the C.T. scan, a diagnostic tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. In the 1960s he built the computerized axial tomography scanner, which uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who had worked independently on the idea...
...DIED. SIR GODFREY HOUNSFIELD, 84, British electrical engineer who invented the CAT scan, a diagnostic tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. Hounsfield built the computerized axial tomography scanner in the 1960s; it uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who worked independently on the idea...
...origins of modern Australian fauna. "Only in one or two places on the surface of our planet, in the course of the last three thousand million years, have conditions been just right to preserve anything like a representative sample of the species living at any particular time," naturalist Sir David Attenborough wrote in 1991. "Those places are the rare treasure houses of palaeontology. Riversleigh is one of them...