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...creeping commercialization of the Square is no longer creeping, it's galloping," McMillan says. "As operations like Sprint replace stores that sell everyday necessities, I think it will start to affect real estate values...
Specific brain disorders can affect the perception of music in very specific ways. Experiments done on epileptics decades ago showed that stimulating certain areas of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain awakened "musical memories"--vivid re-creations of melodies that the patients had heard years earlier. Lesions in the temporal lobe can result in so-called musicogenic epilepsy, an extremely rare form of the disorder in which seizures are triggered by the sound of music. Autism offers an even greater puzzle. People with this condition are mentally deficient, yet most are proficient musicians; some are "musical savants...
...political concerns affect U.S. decisions on missile defense...
...TIME: If the quiet continues, it'll be clear that the Israeli leadership's thinking about Lebanon was bankrupt for some time. How will this affect confidence in the leadership in the future...
...TIME: How does the Lebanon withdrawal affect prospects for peace with Syria...