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...question is one few researchers would have thought of asking a decade ago. But that was before University of Parma neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues began publishing the eyebrow-raising results of experiments they had been conducting with macaques. The Italian scientists were monitoring the monkeys' brain activity--observing how neurons in the premotor cortex buzzed with activity as the animals grasped a piece of food--when something strange kept happening. The monkeys would be sitting still, doing nothing in particular, and one of the researchers would pick up some raisins or sunflower seeds in order to place them...
...fate became clear.? Even when Hussein was sentenced to death in early November, Iraqis shrugged at the news and remained focused on the many pressing problems facing anyone struggling to find a normal life amid so much daily violence.? Today's news hardly seemed to raise an eyebrow among people in Baghdad getting ready for the holiday feasts of Eid al-Adha, a four-day celebration in the Islamic world...
...Palestinians who lived there. But the pan-Arabism that once made the Palestinian cause the region's cause is long dead, and the Arab countries have their own worries aplenty. In a decade of reporting in the region, I found it rarely took more than the arching of an eyebrow to get the most candid of Arab thinkers to acknowledge that the tears shed for the Palestinians today outside the West Bank and Gaza are of the crocodile variety. Palestinians know this best...
...teams cooking, which was done in advance. Fuerza Latina’s team with Latin American cuisine was first up in front of the judges. The team served popcorn with their Ecuadorian Ceviche, a seafood salad, earning praise from Rosen for their originality. But Bryant, said with an arched eyebrow, “The consistency of the shrimp is questionable.” The cooks from BSA appeared less nervous than the other competitors—on the video they were singing and dancing to the radio while cooking earlier in the day. Antoniu, who put on her glasses...
...word. When his legislative-affairs team summarily dismissed our attempts to shoehorn our funding into the budget, I smiled and continued trying to work neatly within the system. When I heard staff privately deriding evangelical Christians because they were so easily seduced by White House power, I raised an eyebrow but not a ruckus. Like everyone else in the small faith-based office, I didn't speak too loudly or thunder too much. We were the nice guys...