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...suffered brain damage. Clearly, this is not the most convenient way to learn about the brain, especially if you want to know more about what passes for normal. Even highly detailed pictures from the most advanced computer-enhanced X-ray imaging machines could reveal only the organ's basic anatomy, not how the various parts worked together. What researchers needed was a scanner that didn't subject patients to radiation and that showed which parts of the brain are most active in healthy subjects as they perform various intellectual tasks. What was needed was a breakthrough in technology...
...Kyoto Prize—including a 20-karat gold medal, a diploma and 50 million yen (about $400,000) in Kyoto, Japan this November. The foundation awards three such prizes annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of mankind in the fields of advanced technology, basic sciences and the arts and philosophy...
Websites will offer basic reading materials, pronunciation exercises and film supplements, which students will study under the supervision of a language coach. Mugane himself will coordinate students’ progress...
...should know. I was on the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law in the late 1980s and fought?in vain?the introduction of potentially Draconian clauses, including Article 23. While the Basic Law was still being drawn up, the Tiananmen massacre took place. It was a time when Beijing's leaders were not even sure about their own future. They were fearful that Hong Kong?where more than a million people took to the streets in the runup to the June 4, 1989, killings?would become a center for subversion. So in the second draft of the Basic Law, they...
...short, Hong Kong people are ready to govern themselves in reality, not just in theory. Beijing must realize that its efforts to control Hong Kong have damaged the territory's fragile society and that it needs to repudiate this policy. That's not such a difficult decision. The Basic Law allows for the Chief Executive to be democratically elected in 2007 and all members of the Legislative Council to be democratically elected in 2008. China's leaders should take the initiative and state that they will not only allow but indeed encourage fully democratic elections...