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...next room, tie a string around his finger and snake the other end under the door and leave it next to the meditators. When they reached meditative Nirvana, they pulled the string, and Newberg released the dye into the subjects' arms. His results showed that the brain doesn't shut off when it meditates but rather blocks information from coming into the parietal lobe. Meanwhile, Benson took a group of highly focused Sikhs who could meditate while an fMRI machine clanked away, and he measured the blood flow in their brains. Overall blood flow was down, but in certain areas...
...back up its case on the "yellowcake" uranium allegations says the intelligence services did not believe it was likely that Saddam would share his weapons of mass destruction with al-Qaeda, except perhaps once his regime was doomed. Critics suggest this is because the administration was inclined to shut out information that undercut its rationale for war. Former Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland, who serves on the congressional 9/11 commission, for example, charges that the Administration pressed for delaying the publication of the commission's work because its conclusions undercut a key aspect of the case...
...embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors of key embassy offices shut, armed himself and his wife with pistols, and-says al-Khudairi-warned colleagues that he would "put a bullet in the head of anyone who tried to defy him." Al-Ani, who couldn't be reached for comment, told al-Jazeera that the allegation that he threatened colleagues...
...tough and hard but not radically different than the other people in developing countries who do oil or telecom. You had to deal with them." Uzan's real venom, however, is reserved for Prime Minister Erdogan, whose Justice and Development Party was founded on Islamic principles. The move to shut down the family's profitable utilities stung. "What kind of a Muslim are you, man?" Uzan told a crowd in Bursa after the government seized the utilities. "You infidel!" The speech was subsequently re-broadcast on Uzan-owned television stations, earning Cem another libel suit - this time from Erdogan...
...side effect of fragmenting vacations is that many of Europe's big cities are no longer summer deserts. Madrid and Barcelona, for instance, only a decade ago looked neutron-bombed in August. Everything shut, everyone off to la playa or el pueblo. Today, many Madrileños and Barceloneses are rediscovering their cities in summer - and loving them. Noise levels plummet, there are parking spaces to pick from rather than pull knives over, many restaurants and shops stay open to cater to locals and people avoid the worst part of travel - the traveling itself. In Paris, they've gone...