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Studies of the meditating brain got much more sophisticated after brain imaging was discovered. Or maybe not. In 1997 University of Pennsylvania neurologist Andrew Newberg hooked up a group of Buddhist meditators to IVs containing a radioactive dye that he hoped would track blood flow in the brain, lighting up the parts that were the most active. But the only way for Newberg to freeze-frame the exact moment when they reached their meditative peak was to sit in the next room, tie a string around his finger and snake the other end under the door and leave it next...
Thalamus The gatekeeper for the senses, this organ focuses your attention by funneling some sensory data deeper into the brain and stopping other signals in their tracks. Meditation reduces the flow of incoming information to a trickle...
...generating between 500,000 and 100 million liters per year - has shrunk from 610 in 1995 to 466 today, mostly through closure. Analysts see the next decade being dominated by even more mergers, closures and acquisitions. Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Ian Shackleton sees 70% of Germany's beer flow ending up in the hands of just a few global players by 2010. He points out that thirsty outsiders like Heineken in the Netherlands and Interbrew in Belgium have already taken over 18% of Germany's production since 2000; big brewers like them have the resources to suck...
...desperate to find him. At home, Americans are concerned about the constant flow of U.S. casualties resulting from what new Central Command General John Abizaid described last week as a "classical guerrilla-type campaign." While there is no evidence that Saddam is directing the attacks, U.S. war planners believe that as long as he is at large, he will continue to galvanize his followers. "Until the myth dies," says Lieut. Colonel Russell, who oversees the town of Tikrit, "people are going to show unnatural fear of his return." Capturing Saddam would also give a lift to the Bush Administration, roiled...
...says that hip-hop’s place in popular culture and its aesthetic basis on the notion of “flow,” or dynamic change, make it a uniquely difficult subject for academia to keep up with...