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...Rutgers, the vision scientists exploited Holcombe's technology in experiments where a viewer was asked to pay attention to one of the two Gabor patches as the color, spin and stripe size of both were changed randomly...
...outside, some on the inside. Rogers says he isn't retiring; he plans to work on museum and website projects. And of course, with so many episodes in the can, many of his audience may not notice the difference. Just promise us one thing, Mister R.: no movie spin-offs...
DIED. HOSEA WILLIAMS, 74, fiery, foghorn-voiced civil rights leader and deputy to Martin Luther King Jr.; of cancer; in Atlanta. Williams joined the civil rights struggle after taking his sons to a drugstore in 1950s Savannah, Ga., and seeing them cry when he told them they couldn't spin on the soda-fountain stools with the white children. He led the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala., and later turned his efforts to the poor and homeless. Though he won election to local and state offices, he said one of his happiest days was in '63--when...
...Gore wasn't waiting until dark - Monday afternoon, he set up an ostentatiously televised conference call with Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle (on camera) giving the party blessing to Gore and Lieberman (disembodied voices). The spin flew so fast, it could have been a psychic-friends infomercial. Gephardt and Daschle followed up with a press conference, doing some math that showed Gore victorious "if all the votes are counted." Film of Gore and Lieberman on the phone followed that...
...scold that many in Gore's audience, 20 days after the election, are apt to take personally. Monday night, Gore got in at 8:55 and out in time for Americans' precious 9 o'clock shows. But the import of his address - an address suspiciously bereft of comforting spin nuggets like "days not weeks" - was one that he'll have to fight this week and longer to support...