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The Beat

	UPN
	Midseason debut
	Tuesday 8:00–9:00 p.m.
Cast:	Derek Cecil, Mark Ruffalo, and Heather Burns

It's too bad The Beat's on UPN; few people will actually see it. Written and created by Homicide's Tom Fontana, the show is a well-written, stylish cop show that emphasizes character over crime. Perhaps that's because the uniformed cops walk the beat and leave the crime-solving to the plainclothes detectives. As a stunt to set The Beat apart from other shows of the genre, the job-related scenes are shot on video, appearing grainy and jumpy, and the personal-life scenes on film, appearing crisp and glossy.

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Beats: new directions in Beat studies.(Reconstructing the Beats)(Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera)(Book Review) (College Literature)

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Your first beat (The Quill)

And the Beats go on.(BOOKS)(Book Review) (The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide)

Beat-to-beat QRS variability in the 12-lead ECG and the detection of coronary artery disease (Journal of Electrocardiology)

Effect of Premature Ventricular Beats on Manual and Automatic Repolarization Measurements (Journal of Electrocardiology)

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