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...consciousness can be pushed around by physical manipulations. Electrical stimulation of the brain during surgery can cause a person to have hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality, such as a song playing in the room or a childhood birthday party. Chemicals that affect the brain, from caffeine and alcohol to Prozac and LSD, can profoundly alter how people think, feel and see. Surgery that severs the corpus callosum, separating the two hemispheres (a treatment for epilepsy), spawns two consciousnesses within the same skull, as if the soul could be cleaved in two with a knife...
Jumpman George Bush Sr.'s 85th-birthday plans...
Pity poor Xiang Xiang. Pampered from birth, his every need anticipated by a loyal band of caregivers at Sichuan's Wolong Giant Panda Breeding Center, the baffled bear received the shock of his young life soon after his fourth birthday. Without warning, he was driven into the middle of thick bamboo forest and abandoned, a first attempt by Chinese scientists to return captive-bred animals to the wild. Though he'd had some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he'd been dropped in a very rough neighborhood indeed. A few weeks ago, forest wardens spotted Xiang Xiang...
...understand us,” Kopko says jokingly of the four “beautiful people” with whom he shares an apartment in Allston. They go on team trips and even have matching DormAid jerseys. When their plans to go skydiving on Kopko’s birthday fell through, “we wore our jerseys and went go-carting instead,” says COO Robert D. Cecot ’08. Matching jerseys aside, Kopko is passionate about building an organization dedicated to, in his words, “empowering the next generation...
...plays at weddings and dances, and on one recent job she found herself at the birthday party of a prominent Londoner. She and the rest of the band serenaded guests from the terrace, and after dinner, the sky lit up with fireworks...