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...brain represents the content of our thoughts and feelings. Yes, we may know where jealousy happens--or visual images or spoken words--but "where" is not the same as "how." We don't know how the brain holds the logical connections among ideas that spell the difference between "Burr slew Hamilton" and "Hamilton slew Burr," between the image of a person winking to realign a contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from the microcircuitry of the living human brain, and most people...
...blood-clotting, joint-stiffening biotech bubble and bust in the early '90s, and Mr. Market has thoughtfully rewound the tape. The group's first decent rally in 10 years took shape last December. Biotechs bedazzled for three months, surging 175%--only to crumble over the past few weeks. A slew of "promising" companies are now worth half what they fetched in the market the first week of March. Some much less. Consider this biobomb: Protein Design Labs leaped from $97 on Feb. 4 to $327 on March 2 and back to $97 on March 7--completing an expensive round trip...
...opportunities in e-commerce," says Josh Harris, who founded the 220-employee webtertainment network Pseudo.com "The gold rush is coming to a close, and the last piece of the puzzle is what we do." What Pseudo does is not what King does. Pseudo works the fringe, offering up a slew of shows, giving a creative outlet to anyone from a woman having sex on a plane to a naked, one-toothed, 80-year-old man dancing. This stuff--all jerky and spastic in a tiny 3-in. by 3-in. box on your computer screen--makes public-access cable...
...Z.com's acquisitions is a six-minute pilot for a claymation series called Rotten Fruit, about an English band whose members curse at one another. You don't need much of an idea for a six-minute show. But for that idea, the writers got $10,000 and a slew of stock options. "For clients who want to do something different and keep ownership, it's an incredible opportunity," says the writers' agent, Peter Micelli of CAA, one of many agents who began pushing Web deals a few months...
This rule raises a remarkable and baffling array of questions and problems. How does one exactly enforce the limit? Do wandering proctors and administrators periodically stop by dorms, notebook in hand, poking around for cans and bottles? Perhaps a team of forensic experts who can determine whether the slew empty cans on the floor are evidence of recent infractions or a casual approach to cleaning...