Word: conscious
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...there's a considerable difference between human and mouse brains, so developing any genetic therapy could take years. More important, learning and memory are influenced by a quite a few factors. While the Princeton research advances our understanding of the areas of the brain that help form "declarative" or conscious memories, there are other kinds of memory that are governed by different parts of the brain. The more likely applications, at least in the near future, are in therapies for degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's. For now, anyway, that's smart enough...
...designers are turning it, ever more conscious of their increasing influence. "We're not here just to shape a car--we're cultural architects," says Freeman Thomas, who collaborated with Mays on the Beetle and designed the revolutionary Audi TT Coupe before being hired away by DaimlerChrysler this summer. The language of design is all about connecting with people. Or, as Mays says, "it's the battle for their heartstrings...
Nineteen cuts long and teeming with guest stars--Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Nas--the second album from hip-hopreneur Sean Combs is a sprawling, colorful tapestry with something for everyone: hard-core braggadocio, clever sampling (Christopher Cross pops up), label-conscious odes to celebrity life (Miramax and Bentley get name checks) and a few songs made for the dance floor. But the spiritual musings of the title cut and the chill of death blowing through Pain, the album's gripping cautionary street tale, show Puffy grappling with something deeper: the conflicting demands of two worlds...
Enter Davy Crockett...er...I mean, former President Gerald Ford, a Michigan alumnus who last week wrote an extraordinary opinion piece for the New York Times, defending the race-conscious admission policies that are at the core of the Michigan cases. Ford warned that if the courts forbid Michigan to use race, along with other factors that the school employs to select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted...
...GORE has already spent 42% of his purse on a busload of consultants and events like a do at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel that cost $7,500. Said Bush strategist KARL ROVE: "We are the cost-conscious campaign...