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...Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members. But the hard line is no longer imposed as it was in the 1980s, when more than a dozen terrorist bombs were aimed at exiles who dissented from its position. Lately other dialogistas have come forward, including even Antonio Veciana, a co-founder of Alpha 66, an anti-Castro paramilitary group, who now supports some compromise. "Those who had been silent have begun to lose their fear," says Menoyo. "They have started to speak...
However, Descartes was profoundly wrong, it appears, in his assertion that mind and body are wholly independent. The mind, argues University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio in his book Descartes' Error, is created by the body-specifically by the brain. Utterly contrary to common sense, though, and to the evidence gathered from our own introspection, consciousness may be nothing more than an evanescent by-product of more mundane, wholly physical processes -- much as a rainbow is the result of the interplay of light and raindrops. Input from the senses clearly plays a part; so do body chemicals whose...
...vacuum, observes neuroscientist Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego; it craves information, and when it can't come by the data honestly, it does the best it can with what it has. One of his patients, for instance, a physical-therapy professor from San Antonio, Texas, suffered a brain hemorrhage that left a huge blank spot in her otherwise normal field of vision-or, rather, it would be blank if her brain allowed it. First, she saw a drawing of a cat, presumably supplied by her visual memory. "Then," says M.J. Blaschak, "I started...
Choice programs established in Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Antonio and Montgomery County, Md. allow parents to choose the public schools which their children attend, rather than having attendance determined by conventional school district zoning...
Only in San Antonio, Tex. did researchersdiscover learning gains among students who werepart of the choice program. Students in the SanAntonio choice program showed marked improvementon their achievement test scores after one year inthe choice program, but researcher ValerieMartinez of the University of Texas found that 32percent of San Antonio parents were collegedegree-holders, compared with 12 percent ofparents whose children were not in the choiceprogram...