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...Phipp, 30, was in a dark room at a south London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners - which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity - are mainly used to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized for decidedly nonmedical reasons. Researchers were monitoring how it reacted to the TV pictures; specifically, the study was designed to determine whether viewers respond to ads differently at night...
...doesn't love you," gunfire erupted. Though she originally intended her notes from the tragic day to remain private, the philanthropic widow of former Governor John Connally later shared her recall of Nov. 22, 1963, telling the A.P., "It's the image of yellow roses and red roses and blood all over the car ... all over us. I'll never forget it. It was so quick and so short, so potent...
...burning coal but that she couldn't move to take it off. We thought her grimacing seemed a little fake. But the very obvious inflammation of the skin touching the quarter was not. It showed that the brain's control of specific, tiny nerves - in this case the tiny blood vessels in the skin - is profound...
...prisoners - to build a new Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a conference center, has put the possibility back into Africa's former salsa and cocktail capital. Hollywood is already in on the action. Early this year Maputo stood in for Sierra Leone for Leonardo DiCaprio's next film, The Blood Diamond, and DiCaprio was seen at the city's French-African-Portuguese fusion restaurant, Las Brasas, which has a reputation for serving the best steaks in town. This new capitalism is not to everybody's taste. "Advertising billboards seem to be the new architecture of the city," says Tiago Paulo...
...Heart of Darkness kept running through my head. "Exterminate the brutes." He was Mr. Kurtz gone insane in the jungle. He was anxious to start the interview. His scouts had run down a band of leftist guerrillas, and Casta?o wanted to go and personally exterminate them. He had a blood debt to avenge...