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...topics of unique interest, from the banal (recipe ideas for a mother-daughter prayer brunch) to the intimate (how to confront a pastor husband who is addicted to porn). When a Seattle pastor blogged that Ted Haggard's wife was to blame for his infidelity, PW chat boards lit up in her defense...
...Shown faces expressing fear, the healthy brains lit up predictably in the lozenge-shaped amygdala, an emotional center involved in recognizing expressions and tones of voice. But with the patients, the same images caused less activation of the amygdala and more of several other areas including the hippocampus, which encodes and retrieves memories. "Instead of processing a particular face in the context of right now, the brain is basically going back into its filing cabinet and picking out previous experiences, which is not an efficient way for it to work," says Malhi, chair of psychological medicine at the University...
...that open out, like a paper fan, she makes us feel that we're seeing Japan from within, yet in a language we can follow. It's common these days to hear of foreigners who find themselves in neon-crazy Tokyo, "lost in translation." By going to old, lantern-lit Kyoto, and drawing on four decades of being a student and lover of Japan, Dalby shows us how she, her young American culture-and even we-can be found in an old and alien tongue...
...Thursday, a couple of Poonsters were treated to special guest musicians Ratatat, who popped by the castle after a stint at Tufts—because hanging out with bitter Ivy rejects was clearly not an option. Saturday, the Castle lit up with Irish good cheer and a Boston College football player, only to be shut down at four in the morning by campus police threatening “the castle is surrounded.” Now there’s something you don’t hear everyday...Friday saw the advent of every Harvard student’s dream?...
...second half of a day-night doubleheader against St. Joseph’s on March 4, Murphy lit up the scoreboard, going 3-for-3 with two home runs, one of which was a grand slam...