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...circle left by an ordinary quarter, on the arm of a fellow student under hypnosis in medical school. I told her it was a burning coal but that she couldn't move to take it off. We thought her grimacing seemed a little fake. But the very obvious inflammation of the skin touching the quarter was not. It showed that the brain's control of specific, tiny nerves - in this case the tiny blood vessels in the skin - is profound...
...fissures are visible at multiple levels. The most obvious example is that of attack helicopters hunting down rebels in Baluchistan and the tribal areas of our northwest frontier?rebels who are our fellow citizens. But equally dangerous is the chronic failure of our provinces to agree on new dams essential to meeting our future needs for water. Or the inability of our society to channel dissent into debate, an inability that means the publication of cartoons in a newspaper in Denmark is able to provoke not just a response in our own newspapers but also riots that transform our cities...
With the rise of these rivals came one benefit: as time passed, the once hated Great Satan was no longer everybody's favorite whipping boy. Since the U.S. presence in the Middle East had wound down after 2008, it was no longer obvious why Islamist terrorists would expend their energies attacking American cities. That was why, by the 30th anniversary of 9/11, many younger Americans looked back on that event as a strange aberration...
Next, assess each innovation for its value to customers. Obvious? Sure, but most new consumer products fail because nobody wants them. Carlson says the idea of value has moved beyond cost and quality to include such abstractions as convenience and conscience. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, for example, quickly recognized that the iPod would address the crucial consumer needs of simplicity and portability...
...obvious to any casual observerthat the present conflict in the Middle East is part of a larger picture related to Palestine, 9/11, U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and issues with Iran, Syria and Hamas. It all boils down to President Bush's and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's version of democracy, terrorism, Islamic fascists, free trade and puppet governments. What goes around comes around. Herein lies the root cause of conflict in the Middle East. Valentine Anthony Baguio City, Philippines...