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BORN: Nov. 15, 1951, Newark, N.J. EDUCATION: Seton Hall U, B.A., 1974 FAMILY: Husband, William; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Child-care-screening executive; investment banker POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 1711 Almond Avenue, Walnut Creek...
...probably no coincidence that the relaxation response and religious experience share headquarters in the brain. Studies show that the relaxation response is controlled by the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped structure in the brain that together with the hippocampus and hypothalamus makes up the limbic system. The limbic system, which is found in all primates, plays a key role in emotions, sexual pleasure, deep-felt memories and, it seems, spirituality. When either the amygdala or the hippocampus is electrically stimulated during surgery, some patients have visions of angels and devils. Patients whose limbic systems are chronically stimulated by drug abuse...
Memories of concrete facts and events, which can in principle be retrieved on demand, are coordinated through the hippocampus, a crescent-shaped collection of neurons deep in the core of the brain. Other sorts of memory are handled by other areas. The amygdala, for example, an almond-size knot of nerve cells located close to the brain stem, specializes in memories of fear; the basal ganglia, clumps of gray matter within both cerebral hemispheres, handle habits and physical skills; the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, governs conditioned learning (as when Pavlov's dogs salivated at the ringing...
During this encounter Faust says he saw two beings, about four to four and a half feet tall, with large pear-shaped heads and almond-shaped eyes. "What was striking to me was that I reacted to them as if I knew them," says Faust...
...Iraq said, "Did you ever hear of anything so absurd as to go after the runway but not the aircraft? I must say on the whole, my method of tackling aggression was quite a good one." In a Daily Mail commentary excoriating Hurd, defense analyst and Oxford historian Mark Almond concluded, "Whitehall's indignation at American criticism is all the more heated because it masks a bad conscience." His view was echoed in Washington by a similar criticism of Clinton, who has kept the dispute at arm's length and did not even attend last week's policy review...