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...technology also has national-security implications. At a Neuroethics Society-- sponsored symposium at Tufts University last September, ethicists and policymakers debated the potential benefits and threats to individual liberty of brain imaging and stimulation during intelligence gathering, which may be just around the corner. Cephos Corp., a brain-imaging firm based in Pepperell, Mass., hopes to have a lie-detection scan with 90% accuracy ready for use by late 2007, according to CEO Steven Laken, who says the U.S. intelligence community is watching closely. "If someone says, 'I know where bin Laden is,'" Laken asserts, "the U.S. government could hire...
...Politics], and we get a chance to grill them.” He was not the only Lamont who expressed excitement at his impending arrival on campus. Emily H. Lamont ’09 said she did not harbor any concerns about having her father right around the corner. “He’s not usually protective, so I don’t think it’ll be a problem,” she said. “I think it’ll be great to have him around.” Healey had previously told...
...community group, the Friends of the High Line, had not pushed for a more imaginative alternative. Incredibly, they prevailed, or at least have so far. Last year saw the groundbreaking for a park conceived through a collaboration between the artist-architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the landscape designer James Corner of Field Operations, which is also the firm behind the landfill park at Fresh Kills. Their plan calls for stretches of the High Line to be planted in ways meant to recall the self-seeded trees and grasses that sprouted there in the past. That's to remind visitors...
...Corner says he hopes the completed High Line, still a work in progress that's currently budgeted at $94 million, "will have the attributes of something strange and otherworldly, something 'found,' but nothing that could be said to be a ruin." If anything, its future now looks so promising that developers are rushing in with proposals for luxury condos along its route, and the Whitney Museum of American Art is planning a sizable new facility there for contemporary...
...This tasty trip travels throughout the city, pausing so that passengers can enjoy chocolate treats from The Omni Parker House, Top of the Hub and the Langham Hotel’s chocolate buffet. Saturday, Jan. 20 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m., continues through April Trolley Stop Store, corner of Boylston and South Charles St. Boston $75 5)Encyclopedia Britannicus Catch the exciting opening weekend performance of Britannicus, by Jean Racine and directed by Robert Woodruff at the Loeb Drama Center. This modern take on an ancient Greek myth is sure to be much more thrilling than your Greek...