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Humans store memories in various regions of the brain, but neuroscientists have pinpointed one section deep within, a seahorse-shaped structure called the hippocampus, as particularly crucial to memory. Studies of patients with brain injury or disease have shown that the hippocampus is where new memories are formed and where...
The stakes are huge. The 30 or so landowners who formed Virginia Uranium Inc. say the two deposits they want to mine contain up to 120 million pounds of ore, enough to mine for decades. With uranium spot prices hovering around $47 a pound, the ore in Pittsylvania, never mind...
By 2004, Gibbs found himself out of work, with a wife, a newborn son and a job offer in Chicago to work for an upstart U.S. Senate candidate named Barack Obama. Brad Woodhouse, a fellow Democratic operative and sometime fishing buddy, remembers telling Gibbs at the time that Obama could...
The Islamic feminist movement has gathered strength and urgency over the past few years due to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Political Islam "has given women both the cause and the language to demand their rights and equality within an Islamic framework," notes Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian legal anthropologist...
Whichever of the Democrats wins the primary, he or she will likely face tough competition from Schwarzenegger's Republican Party, within which two billionaires and a former Silicon Valley Congressman are already sizing one another up. Former Representative Tom Campbell and state insurance commissioner - and tech billionaire - Steve Poizner have...