A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.

District attorney Ford Cole is running for mayor, promising to capture the city s elusive crime boss, Danny Ludin. On the night of a gas link in the inner city, his interview with a national reporter is interrupted by word that his best prosecutor, Nora Timmer, who s also his lover, has killed a man she claims was assaulting her. A few minutes later, a man shows up at Cole s office claiming it was murder, implicating Nora in complicated schemes and crimes. Cole wants a few hours to get to the bottom of a mess that quickly includes land deals, shell corporations, and political corruption. Who s setting up whom?

Many phenomena in animal nerve tissue are accompanied by electrical processes. These processes are largely due to mechanisms of nervous activity. They provide special opportunities for studying those aspects of nervous activity which generally do not lend themselves to other research techniques. Conversion of the energy of cell metabolism to a specific neuronal function is responsible for molecular and ionic changes, which are associated with the appearance of electrical potentials and changes in electrical constants of the tissue - its electroconducting and dielectric properties. The electrical potentials that arise in the brain have a varied origin. These include the brief impulses lasting 0.2-3 msec that follow excitation of the neuron and the slower potentials lasting 10-20msec that reflect the processes of local excitation in the cell body and in its dendritic processes. Slow potential oscillations with periods ranging from 50-500 msec are shown in the electrocorticogram (ECoG).