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When your eye sees an object, the image is first processed by your retina, then by a lower brain area, and then by the cerebral cortex. The image first goes to the least specialized region of the cortex, known as V1. As information is subject to more processing, it goes to higher and more specialized areas of the visual cortex designated as V2, V3 and so forth...
...large, I wasn't unhappy with your piece on my election as president of the N.R.A., though it was laced with wry innuendo. I do, however, object to your coverage of my civil rights activities, which your writer reduced to a bare minimum. I played an important role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington as the leader and chief organizer of the scores of actors who attended. Some months earlier, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, at Dr. King's request, I persuaded the leadership of one of the technical unions (IATSE) to meet with...
Barnes & Noble has been an object lesson to the rest of the retail world, where everyone seems to have a Net commerce story these days. "In many ways this is what we've been doing for nearly 100 years," says Randy Heiple, vice president of advertising production for catalog giant Spiegel Inc., which ventured online in 1995 and has been ravenously growing ever since. Today the Net accounts for less than 5% of the Spiegel catalog's overall sales, but that share has grown fivefold or more in each of the past three years; sales and circulation of Spiegel...
...Taos system, which will form the backbone of Hollis II, uses an object-oriented client interface that will allow users to search the database using a Web browser, according to Joe Bonwich, a spokesperson...
...knew of me," that is, knew that I had been studying on scholarship in the U.S. for three years. I have had more than seven visits in the past three days from friends and relatives, anxious to hear about "life over there." Not only have I become a prime object of my parents' pride, but I have also (by word of mouth, seemingly) become an image of success. I left home at 14 to go to the first private high school in the country, the American College of Sofia, where I spent three years, after which I won a scholarship...