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This much seems clear: the traces of memory--or engrams, as neuroscientists call them--are first forged deep inside the brain in an area called the hippocampus (after the Latin word for seahorse because of its arching shape). Acting as a kind of neurological scratch pad, the hippocampus stores the engrams temporarily until they are transferred somehow (perhaps during sleep) to permanent storage sites throughout the cerebral cortex. This area, located behind the forehead, is often described as the center of intelligence and perception. Here, as in the hippocampus, the information is thought to reside in the form of neurological...
Most people who file pro se--Latin for "in one's own behalf"--do so because they can't afford a lawyer, and the rest just don't want one. "They think it's kind of cool to say, 'I don't need a stupid lawyer,'" says attorney Gay Conroy, who counsels pro se filers in Ventura, Calif. TV shows like Judge Judy and legal websites like Ed Koch's TheLaw.com may embolden people by demystifying the courthouse. And antilawyer sentiment remains as potent as ever. "This is an era of do-it-yourself," says Kathleen Sampson of the American...
When it comes to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, never bet against the home-schooled kids. This year's champ, GEORGE ABRAHAM THAMPY, 12, and the top two runners-up take their lessons at home, where subjects like Latin, long dormant in public schools, fill the time most kids squander socializing. But George is a standout even in the rarefied air of the bee circuit. In two previous attempts, he tied for fourth and third places in the spelling contest, and two weeks ago, he came in second in the National Geography Bee. With the spelling title--which George...
TITO PUENTE seemed superhuman to me. He was the founding father of Latin music as we know it, the master of masters. He took all the hits in the beginning. Without Tito, who would have carried it on this long? Who would have helped generations make Latin music their own? He and I came from the same neighborhood in Spanish Harlem, and, knowing that, I felt nothing was impossible. The day I met him, he said I reminded him of his son, and thereafter he treated me as a son, always telling me, "Keep...
Happily for him, the second Latin oration was interrupted by a fight outside of the meetinghouse; six men and a constable were beating two drunken English soldiers...