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...reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, Corbetta's team found that spontaneous brain activity in two separate regions of the cerebral cortex appeared to be correlated after the participants had learned the visual task, but were not linked beforehand. The brain activity in those who were best at finding the hidden pattern onscreen was most strongly related. "Our test was like a video game. What this research shows is that we have a very dynamic landscape of ongoing activity [in the brain] even when we are at rest," notes Corbetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Studies: An Idle Brain May Be Ripe for Learning | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...junior who will be interviewing for positions at financial firms next week said that while he has secured several interviews, he has only been successful with firms with which he had networked beforehand by sending follow up e-mails, making phone calls to employees at the firms, and going to firm “meet and greet” information sessions...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Upbeat On E-Recruiting | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...Germany is a high-tech country and it's incredible this software bug could have happened here," Manfred Westphal, head of the financial-services department of the German Consumers' Association, tells TIME. "It's a lousy mistake - obviously the banks didn't test the software properly beforehand." Consumer groups say the banks have only given out piecemeal information to customers who are confused about which cards they can use in cash machines. German Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner has also criticized the banks' handling of the situation and said that consumers shouldn't be held liable for any bank charges they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...well as to cultivate existing ties. Faust chose to deliver her keynote address at the Soweto Campus of the University of Johannesburg, located in a former segregated neighborhood—and a far cry from gentrified Cambridge. A senior Harvard administrator was sent to scope out the area beforehand as an “advance...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Around the World with Faust | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...death in 1989. Marroquín says the meeting with the Galáns was more nerve-racking than the time when he, as a teenager in Medellín, was summoned by pistol-packing leaders of a rival cartel. (At the time, he made out his will beforehand.) "I felt 10 times more afraid, even though I knew that no one was going to hurt me physically," he said, "because I felt an enormous responsibility [to the Galán family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Father, the Drug Lord: Pablo Escobar's Son | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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