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Harvard researchers discovered a new form of eyesight for one species of River House resident when they found a special type of cell in mice that detects upward motion...
...that standing outside the beacon Theatre in Manhattan after the 2006 (and, possibly, the 2,006th) concert by the Rolling Stones? Why, it's Martin Scorsese, instructing a camera operator to catch the action on the street and above. Gloriously above. The shot zooms upward from Scorsese to catch the crowd, then higher and faster so we see the marquee, then the neighborhood; and faster still, in an astronaut's view of receding Earth, until we can see all of Manhattan island illuminated by a full moon that dissolves into the Stones' jolly red-tongue logo. In Shine a Light...
...example, three muscles control the human eyebrow, shaping that portion of the face into an exponential number of expressions. Feeling distressed? Those muscles unconsciously knit the brows together and upward, pulling the eyes up at the inner corner. Think of that classic vision of perpetual existential angst, Woody Allen. It's a facial expression that O'Sullivan says can be performed by skilled actors like Allen. But, she says, "for most people when that [expression occurs], they're feeling distressed, and most people cannot make that movement voluntarily. So if you can't make it voluntarily then it's going...
...lost a playoff series at home since 1995. In the 13-year time span, Harvard has been the winner of six quarterfinal, two first-round, and one preliminary-round game…Donato has worn the same red-patterned tie to every game since the Crimson started its upward streak. Although he wears a different shirt every game, Donato said, “it was the same-looking shirt, though”...Rogers, who left Saturday’s game with an injury, was added to last night’s lineup at the last minute and went...
...findings may in the end offer more cost-saving potential - and raise more interesting questions - in developed nations, including the U.S., where medical costs have spiraled upward in the last two decades. Neither doctors nor patients may want to drop cholesterol testing altogether - more information is better, especially when the consequence of missing a diagnosis is heart attack - but there is still a practical lesson to be learned. "I think in the U.S. we might use this as an initial test," Gaziano says. "We can at least narrow the group of people for whom we need to screen cholesterol." Those...