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...more common in the '50s and '60s when some mental illnesses were treated by removing it in an operation called a prefrontal leukotomy. Solms waded through the literature and found hundreds of case studies in which the effects of this procedure were described. To his amazement, reported loss of dreaming was one of them. "So I thought I'd discovered something new," says Solms, "but it turned out to be something we'd documented long ago but had forgotten." In the field of dreams, however, his findings were no less significant for that: Solms had shown REM and dreaming...
...fashionable these days to speak of the death of Europe. And Dutch journalist Geert Mak's new history of Europe's 20th century begins with a scene from a picturesque European village in 1999. It's a place he finds filled with endings, loss and decay. "The storks had left by now. Their nests lay silent and empty atop the chimneys. The summer was in afterglow, the mayor sweated as he cut back the municipal grass." If that doesn't evoke expiration, consider that the mayor is cutting the grass with a scythe...
...exception of the 18-going-on-80 Greg Oden, there are few—if any—Zinedine Zidanes in the NCAA Tournament. How many 19-year-old kids could walk by the NCAA Tournament Trophy, seconds after committing an ignominious act condemning his team to a certain loss, with the expression of a person on an afternoon stroll?Not many. And that’s what elevates the NCAA Tournament over the World Cup, the Olympics, and any other global sporting event. And that same quality confines it to a US audience grown accustomed to the thrill...
...male athletes taking nine out of 10 golds on offer and bagging several silvers and bronzes too. Their one failure came in the sport's blue-ribbon event: the 10-meter board competition. China's formidable sports machine knows that it only has itself to blame for that loss. But it was willing to lose a gold to enforce a rigid discipline on its prized athletes...
George W. Bush and his allies have always thought that, in hindsight, their February 2000 loss in the New Hampshire primary was a blessing in disguise. His turnaround following that defeat proved that the front-running Texas Governor didn't have a glass jaw, that he was more than a political heir relying on name recognition alone. Today it's John McCain, the man who handed Bush that defeat and is now the nominal G.O.P. establishment candidate in the 2008 Presidential election, who has to prove he can bounce back from a humbling early defeat...