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...personal or political validation. Keith Errecart Honolulu In "Getting Inside Your Head," you reported on scanning techniques that help determine how our brains work. You noted that corporate marketers could use neuroimaging technology to scan people's brain functions as new products are tested. Philosophers and theologians should be alert to those innovative methods for looking inside how the mind works. Those who grapple with the interrelation of mind, soul and body must consider more seriously the implications of the latest information available in brain research. Harvey Bollich Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S. Changes of Life Your article on menopause...
...added seven more in the second frame and nine in the third, his rebounds darting safely away and his reactions alert and timely...
...broke the news about Brad adopting Angelina’s babies.Well, I mean, I didn’t alert the national media to it or anything, but within my Harvard social circle, I was certainly the first to know. Perhaps I prefer fame-tastic tussles to midterm paper-writing. Perhaps I’m just waiting for the right moment to pounce on a newly-separated Brad (or Angelina, for that matter). Whatever the motivation, there’s one secret weapon I have that keeps me ahead of my peers when it comes to celebrity stalkage: I bypass...
...heard running footsteps behind him. After being knocked to the ground, the victim and the suspect engaged in a scuffle, Upton said. According to a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) crime advisory, the struggle resulted after the victim refused to give up his backpack and yelled for help. The alert was sent out to all of the graduate schools located in the North Yard of the University, near Oxford Street and Divinity Avenue. The HUPD advisory reports that the suspect pummeled the victim in the face and upper body. The victim reportedly responded by striking his assailant with his fists...
Your piece on Iraqi prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi, nicknamed the Iceman, who died at Abu Ghraib while in U.S. custody, should alert all conscientious Americans that a gestapo-style secret police is operating in our society [Nov. 21]. The CIA orders unannounced midnight abductions of suspected insurgents and tortures prisoners, sometimes to death. Your article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form, by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened up the can of worms that...