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GELL: Okay, Bullock was great in "Speed." This film even alluded to "Speed," as Bullock in one scene was forced to make a somewhat distant jump across an opening drawbridge. Unfortunately, as with many other scenes in this film, this scene did not become a real adrenaline-rusher or a "great escape" for the heroine. Instead, the movie simply continued, as if nothing happened. Hey, Goel, did this movie change your opinions about the Web? Are you worried that things may not really be safe after you saw a woman's identity change completely...
There's one problem with this familiar version of how our distant ancestors emerged from the sea: it's probably wrong. For one thing, newly assembled fossils -- in particular, a 360 million-year-old salamander-like aquatic animal called Acanthostega -- strongly suggest that toes and feet were developed before life climbed onto land, not after. Moreover, in shape and function, Acanthostega's fully jointed toes bear no resemblance to the spiky, fanlike fins of a fish. Scientists believe they understand how a fish's gills evolved into an amphibian's lungs. But how did fins turn into feet like these...
...Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least 90 people in New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and a few other states since 1990, resulting in four deaths. The infection is caused by the Ehrlichia bacterium, a distant cousin of the microbe responsible for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fortunately, Quinn had gone to specialists who recognized the infection and cured him with the antibiotic doxycycline. "I had no idea it could be fatal," he says. "Looking back, I'm glad I didn't know the severity...
...them. Yet while the victims of mental disorders are certainly conscious and aware, their worlds are profoundly different from those of most of us. What can it possibly feel like, we wonder, to live without emotion, to be crippled without realizing it, to re-experience an event from the distant past complete with the fears that originally surrounded...
...stands to reason that humans would have a specialized region of the brain for processing emotional perceptions and memories: if our distant ancestors hadn't had an instant and violent reaction to danger, they would not have lived very long. But other parts of the brain are apparently also involved in feeling emotions. What's most surprising is the assertion by the University of Iowa's Damasio that emotion is central to the process of rational thought...