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...Musicophilia, as in the books that made his literary name, Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks dives into the crevices of the human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with the phenomenon of earworms - catchy tunes that loop in our heads, even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself...
...part of ad hoc militias supported and paid by the U.S. military. It's still a work in progress and sometimes dangerously clumsy. Members of the American battalion here recently shot and killed three of the new local volunteers at a checkpoint just north of town, saying they mistook them for insurgents planting roadside bombs...
...sophomore, wearing a circuit board sewn onto the front of her black hooded sweatshirt, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Logan International Airport after police mistook the device for an explosive. The student, Star A. Simpson, was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a hoax device, according to Assistant Suffolk District Attorney Wayne Margolis. Simpson first raised suspicions when she approached a MassPort employee working in Terminal C to ask about the status of an arriving flight. After briefly meandering through the terminal, Simpson exited and was confronted by Massachusetts State Police troopers wielding submachine guns, State Police...
...movie were to be made about your life, what would it be called, and who would play you? -Danijela Grbavac, Toronto It would be called The Dustin Hoffman Story. When we were starting out, [Robert] De Niro, me and Hoffman were always sort of mixed up. People mistook us for each other...
Elsewhere students mistook the sounds for construction work going on nearby. Liviu Librescu, 77, the Holocaust survivor, was teaching solid mechanics on the same hall when the class heard the shots. He braced his body in front of the door, yelling to his students to head for the window. They pushed out the screens, jumped or dropped into bushes below to escape. "I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Alec Calhoun, who landed in a bush and ran. The two students behind him were shot, he said...