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...perception experiment conducted by PEAR, a research participant was placed in a remote and very distinct geographical location, where he was asked to take note of his physical surroundings and record any significant impressions he might have of the experience. At the same time, another participant, stationed in a distant and randomly selected location, was asked to divine the character of the location being simultaneously experienced by the other participant...
...more on theoretical study and less on practical applications. Nonetheless, Lettieri foresees everyday uses of PEAR’s research emerging in the future. “[PEAR’s research] may one day lead to substantial changes in medical education and practice, as well as breakthroughs in distant healing, intuitive diagnosis, therapeutic touch, intercessory prayer and the clinical applications of subtle energies such as biophoton emissions,” he says...
...possible with my creation of time travel. Luckily, however, I think we will eventually encounter advanced civilizations on other planets through space travel. So perhaps they created a time machine a thousand years ago, and this would allow us to travel to points in our own distant past. In that case, I would love to visit ancient Rome as it was and see how people lived. See what Plato looked like. The future doesn’t excite me as much as the past does...
...boys school. Though dressed up as celluloid eye candy, the film is seethingly bitter at its core. The setting is a young-yakuza breeding ground where everybody wants to join someone else's gang or start his own. Boys kill each other at school. Authority is a distant rumor. The boys' only respite comes through playing a heart-stopping variant on the game of chicken: they stand at ledges 30 meters above the concrete and see how many times they can clap their hands before grabbing at the railings to keep from falling...
...Sheltered Maine native Mariah L. Rivers ’05 was fascinated by a spring break excursion to what she termed the “Deep South.” Rivers, who reached points as distant as New Jersey during a road trip with roommate Caroline W. Li ’05, confused waiters and assorted bystanders by attempting to order grits at every meal and repeatedly demanding directions to Dollywood...