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Eyewitnesses gave several accounts of theshootout. Sidney D. Weinberg, a Brooklineresident, was making a withdrawal from anautomated teller machine in the Bank of Bostonwhen the shootout occurred. He said the two menattacked the Brinks guard in the external bankfoyer and threw him to the ground...
...Ilene Weinberg, 68, a former social worker from Newton, Massachusetts, didn't want to get a computer; her typewriter worked just fine. But two years ago, her son gave her one anyway, hoping it might help make up for the debilitating effects of her Parkinson's disease. Now she spends so much time online that she has installed another phone line. ``I feel like I'm with it,'' says Weinberg. ``I'm connecting with the present and the future...
...Weinberg's chief destinations is the 15,000-strong SeniorNet, where she spends several hours a day chatting with others her age in the organization's station on America Online. Many seniors find the network a rich source of new friends and support in time of trouble as well as a handy supplier of information on such subjects as how to light a water heater or handle depression. ``For many older people, computers allow them to feel as if their world is still expanding,'' says Mary Furlong, who founded the San Francisco-based SeniorNet in 1986. ``They allow...
Cancer is not a modern disease. Some of our apelike ancestors undoubtedly suffered from it; so did the dinosaurs. In fact, says Robert Weinberg, a molecular biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "it is a risk all multicellular organisms run." Each time a human cell divides, it must replicate its DNA, a biochemical manuscript some 3 billion characters long. In the course of transcribing such a lengthy document, even a skilled typist could be expected to make mistakes, and cells, like typists, occasionally err. More often than not, the mistakes they make are minor and quickly repaired by proteins...
Benjamin's performance as Marat alternates between indifference and vehemence without reason. He expels his lines with lethargic volume, but does not quite seem to understand the import of his words. The three singers, played by Finn Moore Gerety, Jonathan Weinberg and Rebecca Boggs, are effective and solid, propelling the play forward with energy and style. The patients of the asylum are remarkable in creating boisterous chaos together and for sustaining their small ticks and twitches throughout the two-hour show...