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...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 as the amygdala, or note the telltale firing of neurons as a long-buried memory is reconstructed. "What's so exciting," says Patricia Churchland, a professor at the University...
Life was reduced to the daily alternation between huddling in dark apartments and standing in line for hours to fill water containers, which would then be carted home in baby carriages, wheelchairs and trolleys. The war interfered with every act, even one as innocuous as looking out the window; most glass panes were shattered months ago and have been replaced by opaque plastic sheets...
...government training and education programs are scaled back, aspiring workers will have to rely on the private sector. Training Inc. is a national nonprofit group that helps people polish their job skills. This has given counselors like Bev Schroeder a window on people's dreams and expectations. She works at the Indianapolis branch. "When I do presentations, I'm struck by the number of people who ask, 'How much will I make at the end?' " she says. "I talk about process. They say, 'I can't take $7.50 an hour. I need at least $30,000 a year...
...housing form which I had just received in the mail, I would not get to participate in the decades-old tradition of living in the yard. I would not be allowed to rise each morning to the tolling of the Memorial Church bell or to look out my window at the splendor of Widener Library. I was fated to be unlike the rest of my classmates. I had been singled out. They knew that I was one of the "mistakes...
...world's greater understatements, Bunting's architectural book notes that the "Science Center is not entirely satisfactory from a visual standpoint." Designed in 1970, the building was financed largely by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation. Many a Harvard students have peered out a Canaday window, trying to locate the building's flash and shutter...