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...unity. Amadi Gabriel Aba, Nigeria Sri Lanka is mourning the death of the tsunami victims. People are contributing everything they can to help survivors. International aid is pouring in. The world may never have witnessed such togetherness. We have seen the devastation on TV or with our own eyes. Nature has taught us a lesson: it treats everybody alike. With determination, we will overcome the tragedy. In the past years, national unity in this country has been forgotten. We did not bat an eye over the agony of those Sri Lankans who became refugees in their own land because...
...only two years ago, at age 27, that he learned why. Studying psychological conditions, he determined that he had Asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism, which explained his social difficulties and seemed tied to his obsession with puzzles. Cohen says he has trouble censoring his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: fending off accusations by the Hollywood film industry that a breakthrough piece of software he wrote is threatening the movie business the way Napster menaced--and subsequently revolutionized--the music world...
...technique—called two-photon calcium imaging in vivo—was applied to the part of the brain where neural input from the eye is translated into images we see. When the animals, cats, and rats were subjected to visual stimuli of moving black and white stripes, the technique recorded images of hundreds of nerve cells firing simultaneously...
...method “allows you to see a complete circuit [of nerve cells] for the first time in its entirety,” said Reid, who is also a professor at HMS. “It gives you an immediate bird’s eye view of what the brain is doing, neuron by neuron...
...talk of profits and synergies, investors would be wise to view these deals with a wary eye. Blockbuster mergers tend to be duds for stockholders of the acquiring company. In seven of the nine mergers valued at more than $50 billion, the acquirer's share price is down an average of 46% from premerger levels, according to FactSet Mergerstat, a research firm in Santa Monica, Calif. Maybe you already knew that if you're a longtime owner of Hewlett-Packard, whose stock has flatlined since the company acquired Compaq in 2002. AOL's merger with Time Warner (parent company...