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COULD THINKING ABOUT THOUGHTS IN A new way affect not only such pathological brain states as OCD and depression but also normal activity? To find out, neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison turned to Buddhist monks, the Olympic athletes of mental training. Some monks have spent more than 10,000 hours of their lives in meditation. Earlier in Davidson's career, he had found that activity greater in the left prefrontal cortex than in the right correlates with a higher baseline level of contentment. The relative left/right activity came to be seen as a marker...
...that reason, a Davidson County chancellor last summer ruled the tax unconstitutional, and stopped the state from collecting Robbins' $1.1 million. But the Department of Revenue, confident the ruling will be overturned on appeal, is continuing with the assessments. Says Deputy Commissioner Reagan Farr, "It's fine to have a criminal and a regulatory scheme running in tandem. We've made sure our statute is purely regulatory, not punitive." But no matter how you define it, the bottom line for Tennessee is that crime pays...
...vote in 2008. "If the DPP could pull it out in either one of those races people would say, 'See, it's not completely over for the DPP, they still have some support and they haven't completely lost their mojo,'" says Shelley Rigger, an expert on Taiwan at Davidson College in North Carolina. "If they lose both, their mojo will be indeed very hard to see. They were clobbered in local elections last year. If they lose these two big cities, that's going to be evidence that the public has really turned against them...
...opponents but by his supporters. His Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) stood by him during previous recall efforts, preventing the KMT and its allies from securing the legislative support needed to put a referendum to Taiwan's voters. "Up to now," says Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert at Davidson College in North Carolina, DPP members "have said if the choice is between supporting Chen or supporting our political enemies, we go with Chen." But now their frustration "could reach the tipping point." If only 12 of the legislature's 85 DPP members defect on a recall vote, Chen's fate will...
...other sweeps. Senior Noelle Bassi, Morgan, and O’Connor swept the 200-yard butterfly, while Chang, Colling, and freshman Tiffany Bui swept the 200-yard breaststroke. The Crimson’s final win came in the 200-yard individual medley, which was won by senior Jessica Davidson with junior Linnea Sundberg following in second. Harvard finished No. 2 and No. 3 in both the 100- and 200-yard backstroke events, with Hart and Festa earning points in the 100 and Hart and Davidson getting on the board in the 200. “The swimmers are starting...