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Until Patricia Goldman-Rakic started delving into it, the most important part of the brain, the frontal lobe, was a veritable blank sheet. A gray, wrinkled chunk of tissue tucked behind the forehead and taking up about a third of the total brain mass, it is to the rest of the central nervous system what a CEO is to a modern corporation. It takes sensory data fed to it by the rest of the organization (smells, sounds, tastes, etc.) and decides what it all means and what should be done about it. It's largely responsible for our thinking, planning...
...reconstruct the visual world, but of learning non-visual ways to experience the world. One man told me in an interview that his definition of “pretty” was largely based upon an appealing texture, something very smooth. I thought of the zit on my forehead and realized how ugly I would be to him, and justly so on his criteria...
...waves. And there were voices in the fog. First a young woman, then a man, then a woman. Erinn Erickson, Clint Williams, Erin Pawlaski. Angels saying my name, saying I was doing well, that the breathing tube would soon be out, putting a cool cloth on my forehead. A day's work for them, a revelation of human kindness...
...yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle of his forehead and see many spinning Falun emblems, supposedly a splendid sight. When practitioners die, they return to their "true, original self," writes...
...hiding again. In the border towns, too, North Koreans are living on the edge. Park Hye Sook crossed the frozen Tumen in January. At first life got better. She had the luxury of going to the hairdresser; her shiny black hair now sweeps across her forehead in short, neatly trimmed bangs. Her five-year-old daughter sitting beside her smiles shyly. But Park now feels unsafe. She worries she is a danger to the local Chinese who are hiding her in their sparsely furnished apartment. Police have begun checking identity cards; in May, authorities posted a notice on her very...