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...Others approach dreams from a different angle. An argument that resonates with many is that whatever the explanation for dreaming, humans must do it for the same reason that all mammals have done it for more than 100 million years; any theory must make as much sense when applied to a rabbit as to a person. In the same Darwinian vein, sleeping and dreaming must serve important functions because they're vulnerable states and natural selection would have eliminated them if they didn't provide compensating benefits. In the ancestral environment, human life was short and perilous; ever-lurking predators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: While You Were Sleeping | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...democratically” listen “to a whole range of people” among the qualities that make her “eminently suited to leading, in particular, an academic community.” Fellows, including Zuber, similarly commented that Faust’s approach to problems is to listen, and that she is notably open to different viewpoints and encourages dissenting opinions...

Author: By Melissa Quino mccreery | Title: Faust’s Scientific Leadership | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

...APPROACH TO HISTORY

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Looks Beyond Traditional History | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

...babes-in-the-wood approach to the outdated monster of the E.U., which is stripping away 1,000 years of Britain's history and the very foundation of all our ancient freedoms, raises my worst fears about who controls TIME these days. My wife's comment was, "Well, they are Americans." Does this, I wonder, say it all? Michael A. Clark, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science” will be “from the point of view of the humanities instead of the social sciences,” Mansfield said. “I will offer an alternative to the social sciences approach, which I think is boring and useless...

Author: By Arianna Markel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mansfield Earns Top Honor | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

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