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As reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, Corbetta's team found that spontaneous brain activity in two separate regions of the cerebral cortex appeared to be correlated after the participants had learned the visual task, but were not linked beforehand. The brain activity in...
The answers to these questions soon became clear. I was there, in the cheesiest but truest of terms, to find myself. I had adventures that one can’t replicate and met people that I never would have on this side of Massachusetts Ave. I saw Europe rejoice more...
4. Change the culture. Listen to the logic of A.J. Hatfield, a stud fullback from Port Angeles, Wash. During a practice in October, his head was knocked against the ground. Hatfield felt dizzy and developed a splitting headache. Did he tell his coaches about his condition? "Nah," Hatfield says. "I...
De Villepin emphatically denied having cooked up any scandal when he was given the list, and only learned much later that it was a hoax. A tribunal of three judges believed that position, clearing de Villepin of charges that included complicity to slander, use of forgeries and stolen property, and...
Israel says he survived in part because he learned German on the spot at Auschwitz. "It probably saved my life," he says. "If you didn't understand the SS and the Kapos [the prisoners who supervised work gangs] when they gave orders, then you risked death." During his time there...