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What's more, the more closely correlated the brain activity during the rest period, the better the person performed on the tests of recognition. "We found that higher correlations [of activity in the hippocampus and visual cortex] during rest periods leads to high future memory," notes Arielle Tambini, a graduate student in Davachi's lab and lead author of the paper...
Several of Harvard’s wealthy peer institutions faced similar losses in fiscal year 2009. Last year, Yale’s endowment—higher education’s second largest after Harvard—fell 25 percent, and Stanford’s endowment fell by 27 percent...
...Cornell, a win could mean a top-25 berth for the first time since 1950. For Harvard, a victory would open up a path to its first-ever Ivy title. The stakes have never been higher. So start spreading the news...
Indeed, this idea should even appeal to more conservative bathroom-goers who might assume that higher quality toilet paper is an unnecessary expense. With better toilet paper, we can accomplish with a single transcendent wipe what would have required multiple unsatisfying squares and save a considerable amount of money. The bathroom tissue we currently employ, Georgia Pacific’s “Preference”, is available at 76¢ per roll and Charmin’s “Ultra Soft”, a bathroom tissue befitting a patrician, is a reasonable 83¢ per roll. That extra...
...runway. Located 25 km north of the capital Bishkek, the U.S. air base at Manas - Kyrgyzstan's main airport - briefly hit international headlines after the Kyrgyz parliament, under pressure from Russia and China, voted to shut it down in 2009. The U.S government's offer to pay much higher rent meant that the base (now officially called a Transit Center in deference to local sensibilities) survived the threat of closure. It remains today as an embarkation point for troops bound for Afghanistan, and a reminder of the Great Game in which Kyrgyzstan is ensnared. (See 25 (more) authentic Asian experiences...