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...Mozart performed better after listening to Mozart than to the story. Listeners who preferred Stephen King did better after the story. Such findings are in line with those of neurosurgeons who have long tracked the effect of various stimulants, including music and drugs, on the brain's electrical discharge patterns. A growing volume of research suggests that music may hardwire the brain, building links between the two hemispheres. Exactly how this process works is still unclear, but such brain stimulation can lead to peaks of performance and awareness. Why should Mozart's music be the focal point of this debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Of Mozart | 1/7/2006 | See Source »

...what they do, they are beneath serving God" as priests. That distinction belongs to women. Lynn Mostafa Salinas, California, U.S. Jesus befriended sinners and outcasts, but he never told them to continue sinning. He befriended an adulterous woman, then told her to sin no more - and repeated that pattern again and again. Since Sullivan is so quick to draw examples from the Bible, he should read up on the parts that specifically call homosexuality a sin instead of picking and choosing the parts that bolster his case. Katie Hepburn San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Heed Reality in Iraq Controversy over Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spielberg's Shot to the Heart | 1/5/2006 | See Source »

...West Side to the East Side. Several taxi drivers refused to comment on fares during the strike. Small retail businesses, which make some of their biggest profits during the holiday season, are faced significant losses due to the strike. “Any kind of interference in the daily pattern of New York makes a difference,” a salesperson at a small Upper East Side department store said. On the first day of the shutdown, both students and commuters voiced their concerns on the effects of the strike if it were to drag...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NY Transit Strike Delays Students’ Travels Home | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...Nour?s troubles fit a longstanding pattern of government intimidation against democratic alternatives that might appeal to many Egyptians fed up with autocracy as well as to Western governments that have otherwise long done business with Mubarak?s regime. In 2000, veteran Egyptian democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim was jailed on charges of accepting and misusing funds from foreign sources to support his research and monitoring work. Like Ibrahim, whose conviction was later overturned-after some pressuring from the U.S.-Nour was vilified in Egypt?s influential state-run media. Again, the U.S. is demanding that Nour be released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bumpy Road of Reform for Egypt | 12/27/2005 | See Source »

...kind of interference in the daily pattern of New York makes a difference,” a salesperson at a small Upper East Side department store said...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Heading Home Face Transportation Snarl | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

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