Word: overloads
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...activity. During waking hours, the brain keeps adding new information about its environment, forming new circuits and new connections in an ever thickening neural network. But even the fruit-fly brain has its limits and, like any computer, needs a fail-safe shutdown mode as it gets close to overload. That's where sleep comes in. (See pictures of how animals sleep...
...State Hillary Clinton handed her Russian counterpart a "reset" button intended to symbolize the U.S. desire to "reset our relationship." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked at the gift and smiled. "You got it wrong," he said in perfect English. On the button was "peregruzka," which means overcharge or overload. Oops. Just days earlier, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had visited the White House bearing rarefied gifts: a first-edition biography of Winston Churchill and a penholder carved from the timbers of the H.M.S. Gannet. Obama responded by giving Brown a set of Hollywood-movie DVDs, sparking outrage...
...pastor's partners at Reader's Digest aren't worried about readers being turned off by a Rick Warren overload. On the contrary, they're counting on his global appeal. "He's a powerhouse," says Alston in explaining the publisher's decision to take on the new title. "Nearly 50 million people read The Purpose Driven Life - that's nearly 20% of America!" The math added up for Reader's Digest, even as the company is preparing to either undergo financial restructuring or file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "If we touched just 1% of Evangelicals in America," Alston continues, "that...
...card while simultaneously re-enacting his latest acid trip. The video opens with West in sunglasses and a color-block sweater—think Will Smith on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”—against a dark background which unexpectedly starbursts into sensory-overload. Wildly colorful images are digitized and distorted, stuttering choppily from frame to pixilated frame. Weak-stomached watchers beware: you may find “Welcome to Nausea” to be a more accurate title. All the while, in a thinly-veiled attempt to connect with the masses, Kanye muses...
Handling that influx is what concerns the planners most at l'htel de ville, the city hall. Paris got a dose of overload when Japanese visitors, armed with the supercharged yen, arrived by the 747-load in the 1980s. Now think about Chinese and Indians arriving in similar numbers...