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...frustrated by your easy dismissal of French philosopher Rene Descartes's theory of mind-body dualism. This brilliant man did not contend that the mind had no influence on the body, or the body on the mind. In letters to friends who were ill, he urged them to keep objects that they liked around them to raise their spirits. His argument held that the mind was simply a different substance from the body. Even as scientists identify the various electronic and chemical signals of the brain, they cannot say with certainty how the signals function. Descartes's theory...
...former broker supervisor David Tilken, sells Broker Audit, software that automatically tracks client-account activity and alerts in-house compliance officers to suspicious doings. As Tilken, 48, politely puts it, the idea is to prevent "accidents"--everything from long-term neglect to mistyped trade orders to ill-advised portfolio strategies to outright fraud...
...Older fans, dissatisfied with the puerility of the official material since the early days, remedy this with a healthy dose of fanfiction. The quality of the writing ranges from the cringe-inducing to the occasionally sublime. These generally forgettable works run the gamut from ill-conceived robotic porn to misspelled actioners so awful, a roomful of monkeys with a typewriter and a set of Transformer DVDs might have fared better. Some writers, however, clearly aspire to a higher standard. Their websites hold stories rich in characterization and dramatic in scope, truly breathing life into these walking tin cans...
Here is what people should keep in mind as they hear about the CIA's ever expanding paramilitary role in the war on terrorism: it was a short trip, and a direct line, from the CIA's ill-conceived operation at the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban missile crisis...
Meltzer felt ill on Saturday morning, which contributed to his poor performance, but recovered during the six hour break between matches...