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...part of the brain that ordinarily processes shapes. They tend to use the visual centers in the back of the brain for tasks usually handled by the prefrontal cortex. They often look at the mouth instead of the eyes of someone who is speaking. Their focus, says psychologist Ami Klin of Yale's Child Study Center, is "not on the social allegiances - for example, the longing gaze of a mother - but physical allegiances - a mouth that moves...
...living in a world different from other Americans'. We live with sheer terror 24/7 while our husbands are deployed in Iraq. Yet the rest of the country keeps on enjoying freedom and spoiled lifestyles. Thank you for recognizing what we "ghosts" are experiencing and for giving us a voice. Ami Raggio Camp Lejeune, North Carolina...
Anthony Bourdain says this is not a food show: "It's about people, culture and places." Tomatillo, tom-ah-tillo--either way, it's a funny, foulmouthed culinary tour. (Of a French waiter, he asks, "Why is it that when he calls me 'Mon ami,' it sounds like 'A______'?") Fox is turning Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential into a sitcom this fall; here you can catch...
...When Ami Dar first started using the Internet in 1993, he had a narcissistic reaction. "I thought, Someone has invented something just for me," recalls Dar, founder of Action Without Borders. The selfishness, however, was in service only to the most charitable of pursuits. The Israeli-born Dar, 44, had been looking for a way to connect nonprofit organizations from around the globe to volunteers eager to donate their time. "I was obsessed with the notion that you have a world rife with problems," says Dar, "but you also have ideas and resources and people with free time and good...
...Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky (a name he worked under until he changed it during the communist-hunting McCarthy era), he brought his low-key macho swagger to such '50s films as Machine-Gun Kelly before becoming a sensation in Europe as the co-star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, before starring as a vigilante who avenges the murder of his wife and rape...