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University of Washington neurosurgeon Dr. George Ojemann has discovered, by probing the brain with electrodes, that some neurons turn on when one is silently naming an object to oneself but not during reading and vice versa. In one bilingual patient he found neurons that were activated by Finnish but not English. In another he found neurons that changed activity with English but not Spanish. And, marvels Ojemann, "the neurons that are active when you hear a word are not active when you express...
...travel, after all? In order to have a paper sash over the toilet seat? To enjoy a comfortable, momentary change of perspective--a vacation as the equivalent of rolling over in one's sleep? Or to lose oneself? To pass through distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...
...they had a potent aura of mystery. Classical ballet and the music of Tchaikovsky were, after all, their heritage. When a Nureyev or a Baryshnikov fled the country, people imagined that the Kirov was full of such melancholy geniuses. Now, with frequent touring, it is easy to decide for oneself the quality of the emperor's clothes...
...house was wasted." Or, "I had less leisure time than other children." These are boasts of a childhood recalled in tranquillity. Later they became a philosophy: "Being conservative is never merely a matter of income, but a whole way of life, a will to take responsibility for oneself...
...Brown says the "stigma" attached toidentifying oneself as multiracial may keep peoplefrom coming to meetings of groups like Prism andCommon Thread...