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...baffling about NDEs? We know that when a person's heart stops, the decline in brain function caused by a cut in blood supply is steep. Simultaneous recording of heart rate and brain output shows that within 11 to 20 secs. of the heart failing, the brain waves go flat. A flat electroencephalogram (EEG) recording doesn't suggest mere impairment. It points to the brain having shut down. Longtime NDE researcher Pim van Lommel, a retired Dutch cardiologist, has likened the brain in this state to a "computer with its power source unplugged and its circuits detached. It couldn...
...Boisset's wines, and the Yellow Jersey sauvignon blanc, at $15, wasn't bad. In fact, I felt, oddly, snobbishly worldly pouring it from a plastic bottle. It was as if I were saying, I drink so much wine that I don't have to pretend that this slightly flat grapefruit explosion I'm going to down with leftovers is special. Plus, I tend to drop things a lot when I drink...
...President doesn't write eighth grade science books," Huckabee joked, though it fell flat with the audience of about 100. The former Baptist minister then took a different tack: "Look, I wasn't there when the world was started. But I do know that however it was started God was behind...
...people who could be expected to put their homes up for sale in a normal market. The most distressed neighborhoods are seeing foreclosure rates rivaling those produced during the state's oil and gas bust of the 1980s--except these days, there aren't mass layoffs to blame. Just flat house prices and tighter credit standards, which make it harder for homeowners to sell or refinance their way out of trouble...
...banks and check cashers, the serious competition will come over the next year as Wal-Mart rolls out more than 1,000 dedicated check-cashing outlets in its stores, charging a flat fee of just $3 per check. Check cashers have already responded by sprucing up their offerings. Pay-O-Matic, which operates 100 outlets in New York City, recently launched a debit card that earns 3% annual interest on the unused balance. (Wal-Mart's debit card, on the other hand, does not earn interest.) With such nimble competitors, banks will have to move faster than ever...