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...victim reported to Harvard police Wednesday that a gray Austin notebook computer valued at $5,000 was removed from the Biological Laboratories at some point between Tuesday 7 a.m. and midnight on Wednesday...
...four sadistic guards. Or were they? Lorenzo swears his account is true, but admits that nearly all the details in "Sleepers" are fictitious, intentionally altered to disguise his friends. The author seems surprised that anyone would question the veracity of such a disguised tale, but, says TIME's Paul Gray, details do matter. " 'Whatever' won't do as the ruling principle of a book that purports to tell the truth." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
Until just a few years ago, unraveling the relationship of mind and brain was beyond the realm of observation and experimentation. But science has finally begun to catch up with philosophy. Using sensitive electrodes inserted deep into the gray matter of test animals, researchers have watched vision as it percolates inward from the eye's retina to the inner brain. Powerful technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and positron-emission tomography (PET) have also provided a window on the human brain, letting scientists watch a thought taking place, see the red glow of fear erupting from the structure known...
...cells that serve as the brain's basic building blocks. When information-the image of a new acquaintance's face, for example-enters the brain, it arrives in the form of electric impulses streaming from the retina, up the optic nerve and into the cerebral cortex, the so-called gray matter that houses the brain's higher functions...
...crescent-shaped collection of neurons deep in the core of the brain. Other sorts of memory are handled by other areas. The amygdala, for example, an almond-size knot of nerve cells located close to the brain stem, specializes in memories of fear; the basal ganglia, clumps of gray matter within both cerebral hemispheres, handle habits and physical skills; the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, governs conditioned learning (as when Pavlov's dogs salivated at the ringing of the dinner bell) and some reflexes...