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...past few years, Harvard life has undergone an exhaustive microscopy. Each facet of campus life has been examined and every element of our academic structure probed in a furious attempt to uncover what it is that makes so many of us unhappy. But one root of our ills doesn’t hide in our days at Harvard—it is created in our days...
...military role in Basra, Crocker said, "Under a different set of circumstances, you might argue-as some are now doing-that we need a Basra surge ... But you'd need a fairly large force, and we don't have the troops. And if we even proposed it, the political element in the U.S. would go nuts...
...perhaps the strangest element of NDEs, the out-of-body experience, studies led by Swiss neuroscientist Olaf Blanke have shed light on what may be going on there. In 2002, Blanke and others reported how they were able to induce OBEs in an epilepsy patient by stimulating the brain's temporoparietal junction (TPJ), thought to play a role in self-perception. In emergencies where blood supply is cut, says Blanke, "the effects are occurring first at the TPJ, which is a classical watershed area of the brain." It's probable, he concludes, that stress in the TPJ causes the dissociation...
...film based around footy that the women characters are so beautifully drawn. "From what I observed as a kid, the women of that time were strong individuals - resilient, but also really warm," says Nable from his northern Sydney home. "The actresses who came on board added another element to what we had on paper." Toughness comes in many forms. It's the type shown by Emma and the wise barmaid Kate (Kate Mulvany) that eventually gives Grub a glimpse of a meaningful life beyond warriordom...
...karaoke shows painful? Because they make you cringe. Why are they fun? Because they make you laugh. Cringe humor--the humor of awkwardness and faux pas--may be the defining element of early 21st century pop culture, dominating entertainment from Borat to Knocked Up to The Office. It boils down to encountering a social problem or taboo, facing up to it and getting past it by laughing. Likewise the singalong shows: their cathartic message is that none of us are above it all. No, you don't have to sing it well, America. In fact, we'd prefer...