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...parsimony? U.S. officials argue that resettling Iraqis will accelerate the country's brain drain. Admitting large numbers of Arabs also raises anxieties among some Americans that terrorists could slip in--even though refugees are among the most exhaustively screened migrants. But Bush Administration critics say the biggest reason Washington has been slow to act is that doing so would be an admission of failure in Iraq. Says Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: "If the U.S. government were to do an active resettlement regime for Iraqi refugees...
...most exciting findings in brain science is that different kinds of thoughts can be tied to different patterns of activity in the brain. A sidebar to my article "The Mysteries of Consciousness" [Jan. 29] showed colorful brain scans that revealed different hot spots when people saw a face and when they saw a place--and the same brain areas lit up when the people merely thought about faces and places. Unfortunately, my former colleagues who performed this important study, Kathleen O'Craven of the University of Toronto and Nancy Kanwisher of M.I.T., were not credited...
...CORRECTION: The March 1 news article "Test Your Brain for Bucks" incorrectly said that Eric P. C. Phelan ’07 holds a work-study position. In fact, he works a regular term-time...
...settings. “Patients who recover repressed memories are entitled to careful therapy just like anyone else,” Pope said. “We’re just saying that there is no scientific evidence that shows that dissociative amnesia is some innate capacity of the brain.” Pope argues that the lack of scientific evidence for the disorder indicates dissociative amnesia should be classified as a pseudoneurological symptom, a symptom that is experienced by the patient but has no physical evidence. He also argues that this study indicates that repressed memories should be discredited...
...brother’s engagement. Everybody except my cousin’s toddlers knew why we got together on that hot afternoon. Two weeks later, we repeated the event, but this time without one of the guests.We all needed to say goodbye to Pops before he passed away from brain cancer.Pops didn’t want to draw attention to himself and the illness that had taken over his quick-witted, Jesuit-trained mind, though. So it was just an engagement party. He never wanted people to give him the luxury treatment. He hated that I had to drive...