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...functions. In other words, the science behind these toys is legit; there's no magic trick involved. "The fact that you can use EEG, that you can modulate it, that you can control it - it's well known, it's true," says Dr. Ronald Emerson, a neurology professor at Columbia University. Upon hearing about the new toys, his colleague Dr. Catherine Schevon said, "Our fellows would go ape for this!" (Read "Learning More About Levitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind-Control Toys: The Force Is with You | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...general election to take control of the Diet and choose a new Prime Minister. Aso may not survive as the nation's chief long enough to suffer that humiliation, though. "There's no optimistic short-term scenario for Japan," says Gerald Curtis, professor of political science at Columbia University. Aso "is going to have to quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crunch Time | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...where is Harvard in all this? Another close game lost at the end, this time at Columbia...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Nothing Clear in League Picture | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

Other institutions such as Yale, Columbia, MIT and Stanford have already adopted “open courseware” programs that allow the general public free access to lecture notes, exams and videos online...

Author: By Spencer H. Hardwick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finalsclub.org Passes Punch | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Many nations, especially here in the U.S., tend to view France with the out-dated, 40 year-old perception that it hasn't faced its past and learned hard lessons from it," says Robert Paxton, professor emeritus at Columbia University and an acclaimed expert on fascism and Vichy France. "It has done deep research, held trials, updated text books, and even uncovered troubling wartime information on public figures - late President François Mitterrand for one. I'd like school teachers around the U.S. to be able to teach American responsibility for slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the French Ruling on WWII Deportations of Jews | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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