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...material in MCB80, “Neurobiology of Behavior “—largely devoted to providing a broad overview of nervous system—is fairly interesting. But the manner in which it's presented…well, let's just say that "unhelpful" would be an understatement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Molecular and Cellular Biology 80, "Neurobiology of Behavior" | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...These are the kind of comments that make Abe's critics nervous. "Abe is the epitome of this anti-Asia, anti-China feeling that is strengthening in Japan," says Morita. Under Koizumi, thanks largely to his repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, Japan's relations with China and South Korea are worse than they've been in decades. It's possible that Abe, who visited Yasukuni in the past and has questioned the validity of the Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, will worsen the damage. "There's a lot of apprehension in Seoul and Beijing about whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abe Enigma | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...destroy them by using the wrong products, you weaken the skin." To avoid that, he uses only Dr. Hauschka's line, agreeing with its philosophy that products work internally and externally. He also offers his alternative on the antiaging process?the Laser Aramis 2. "The word laser makes everyone nervous," he admits. "But this doesn't affect the epidermis?the first four layers of skin?but affects the dermis [underneath], which then stimulates the collagen that gently plumps out the face." The procedure has to be performed once a month for four months and then once a year after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty: The Fashionable Facial | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server, and you'll be downing cocktails and nibbling on dim sum in minutes. Our test troupe of warblers featured dead ringers for Alanis Morissette alongside nervous off-key newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give up the microphone. But beware of karaoke's addictive quality: after such performances as a song-and-dance interpretation of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, a duet of Sonny and Cher's I Got You, Babe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing Inside The Box | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...West or the loss of a national language. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. "Dictatorship is tragedy that manifests itself in comedy," says Ngugi, 68. His ability to put that into words is part of what turned him into a literary hero in Africa - and made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today's Africa, where schools punish students for speaking African languages. Pushing aside the influences of his childhood curriculum - William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Wizard Of Words | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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