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Before setting out on my memory odyssey, I dialed up a few experts to learn how common memory complaints such as mine are and how serious they could become. On both counts, I came away reassured. While the brain stores memories in a number of areas, it is the frontal lobe that retrieves them and puts them to work. For all its data-crunching power, the frontal lobe is a fragile thing. Everything from fatigue to hormonal changes to simple cellular wear and tear can cause it to falter. "Frontal-lobe processes change in all people as they age," says...
...courtroom odyssey make him a role model for the oppressed everywhere? Averell is modest about his accomplishments...
...they hate the festival," he told TIME's Jeffrey Ressner, "I wonder why they bother to stay in show business." Cecil B. was typical of the American films premiering at Cannes this year. Ribald or sedate, they were all off-Hollywood. The Coen brothers offered a surprisingly genial odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with a turn by George Clooney that taps all his reserves of seductive con-artistry. Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men) brought Nurse Betty, a dark comedy with Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman and high romantic spirits to match its high body count. James Ivory...
Thank you for describing the harsh odyssey of the illegal Chinese immigrant Chen Canting [WORLD, May 1]. Every spoiled rich kid in the U.S. should be forced to read this. Suffering for today's youngsters is not being able to get a sports car. My family and I came to America more than 10 years ago from Korea. My mother works two jobs, as do my brother and I. My father looks after our small business, and all our money goes to pay for school. I wish Chen luck as he tries to stay in the U.S. What we thought...
...take these photographs? Why would anyone purchase a book of them? There is, first of all, the journalistic aspect of Nachtwey's work. He has seen what few others have seen and has brought back evidence of his journeys. His work is, as he writes in his afterword, an odyssey "through the dark reaches of the last decade,'' which is to say through some of the worst human experiences life has had to offer during the last few years. Few have demonstrated the awfulness of these situations better, and we should appreciate Nachtwey for documenting what we are too faint...