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...example, a large part of our visual system is color-blind—the parts that are evolutionarily older and are engaged in detecting motion and separation between figure and background, while the more primate-specific areas are color-selective, says Livingstone...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neurobiology Looks To Shed Light On Vision, Art | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...against this background that Austerlitz realizes “that all my life had been a constant process of obliteration, a turning away from myself and the world,” and undergoes his journey through Europe: travelling from the Czech Republic to England via Germany by train, tracing the route of the Kinder-transport which spirited him from Prague as a five-year old boy in 1939. After learning that his mother was interred at a camp in Terezín in 1942, he visits the town’s Ghetto Museum, and is henceforth tormented by images...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Haunting Magnum Opus | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...Facebook group was created encouraging Hopkins’ students to wear their own school apparel and to walk in the background of the filming...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Facebook Movie Films At Johns Hopkins U. | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...Over here is my official portrait with the American flag in the background, and here we have a photograph of President Bush and I in the Air Force One.” Impressive.When asked if he has any favorite books, Mankiw replies “Besides my own? (laughs) I have some collections of some old Economic texts. I’m not particularly a collector of objects, but here we have some Alfred Marshall and some other famous 19th and 20th century economists...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM Cribs Presents: N. Gregory Mankiw | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

White was selected to speak because of his three decade-long background advising both non-governmental organizations and corporations, Rozensher added...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Law Talk Stresses Corporate Responsibility | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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