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...hemisphere can be busy writing a grocery list or solving an equation while the other scans the environment and tends to other basic chores. As we age, however, the walls between the hemispheres seem to fall, with the two halves working increasingly in tandem. Neuroscientist Roberto Cabeza of Duke University dubs that the HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) model, and judging by his work, the phenomenon is a powerful...
...significantly worse when I had to cower and yell at my embattled and traumatized friend, “Tell me when its over!” every time Depp came on screen. “The Libertine,” details the life of John Wilmot, the second Duke of Rochester, whose unparalleled bisexual licentiousness made him both a legend and a man reviled. He was extremely witty and intelligent, but his cynicism ultimately impelled his self-destruction. Depp’s Wilmot is completely and utterly unlikable. He scorns the overtures of his long-suffering wife (played...
...There’s a sense of always trying to one-up the person next to you…more so than I thought there would be,” he says.William “Zach” Wyatt, a Tulane senior who had originally enrolled at Duke University for the semester before he found out he had been accepted by Harvard, decided to come to Harvard because, he said, “it was a good opportunity to see if I could compete.”While he says he was able to keep up in the classroom, Wyatt...
Whom did ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham talk with while wearing a wire? The speculation is making members of Congress nervous. As TIME.com reported last week, Cunningham?the California Republican who pleaded guilty on Nov. 28 to taking $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors?wore a wire to aid the Justice Department investigation just before his plea. The FBI is still probing defense contractors, and a private-sector source says Cunningham was wired while meeting a rep from at least one firm, possibly to get dirt on other members of Congress. An FBI spokesman wouldn't comment but quoted...
...DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, accuses prosecutor Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, of seeking advantage from national trends by subpoenaing representatives of law firms and Indian tribes connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff and records from lobbyists connected to disgraced Republican congressman Duke Cunningham-individuals, says DeGuerin, who have no direct ties to the campaign finance charges against his client...