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...Rooks' capricious shooting schedule, Franks preserves a consistent style of juxtaposing hand-held and tripod based shots, creating, then shattering continuity in order to disorient the viewer. The camera follows Harwick into an airplane bathroom, pries closer to watch him sniff cocaine, then finds itself too close--a scant inch from his dissipated bleary-eyed face as he turns to leave the bathroom; he approaches the camera, virtually menacing the lens, and Franks cuts away to another scene. Walking toward a car, followed by the camera, Harwick drops a liquor bottle; about five seconds after the audience has forgotten...
Each year the bloodhounds-mostly hard-breathing Republicans and South ern Democrats-nip closer, but each year Eliza stays an inch or two ahead...
...tilting their chromosome specimens, which were taken from a human white blood cell, the German scientists were able to get a side view and measure their thickness-about four-millionths of an inch at their thinnest, center portion and ten-millionths at the thickest part of their "limbs." In Britain, where scientists at St. George's Hospital Medical School are also using scanning electron microscopes to examine chromosomes, the resulting photographs have suggested that chromosomes have an underlying fibrous structure. From these and other scanning electron closeups, scientists hope eventually to gain new insight into the complex processes...
...completely severed spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent success: when a cord is severed it retracts, thus becoming shorter than the corresponding length of adjacent vertebrae. To compensate for this difference in length, Murray removed three-quarters of an inch of Proulx's spinal cord at the damaged area, carefully cutting it so that the severed nerve fibers would fit precisely together when reconnected. Murray then cut a matching length of bone from Proulx's vertebrae, completed the operation by rejoining both spinal cord and bone...
...obdurate was the mood on Capitol Hill that a joint conference committee moved not an inch toward resolving a dispute over a normally routine financing measure needed to fund agencies for which regular appropriations are still pending. The House wants to use the financing resolution as a lever to force the White House to make budget cuts of up to $8 billion while the Senate refuses to cooperate in the ploy. While the conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since...