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...Nova and Blue Man Group headline the acts on Saturday, and then the hip, happening, trendy, Canadian and actually good Barenaked Ladies play on Sunday. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. City Hall Plaza (Government Center T-stop). FREE. You can call me Pavlov...
...etched onto the brain. Indeed, the neurochemistry supporting addiction is so powerful that the people, objects and places associated with drug taking are also imprinted on the brain. Stimulated by food, sex or the smell of tobacco, former smokers can no more control the urge to light up than Pavlov's dogs could stop their urge to salivate. For months Rafael Rios lived in fear of catching a glimpse of bare arms--his own or someone else's. Whenever he did, he remembers, he would be seized by a nearly unbearable urge to find a drug-filled syringe...
...Meshkova and other Russians the news of a reissued $100 note revives bad memories. In the winter of 1991, when then Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov suddenly announced that citizens had three days to exchange their rubles for a newly printed currency, they could turn in only the equivalent of one month's salary. The old rubles were declared worthless, and millions of Russians lost their life savings. Then in 1993 the government made another sudden decree, which meant that Russians again had to exchange a limited amount of old money for new, with the transaction stamped in passports to prevent...
...could participate in an insurance plan or be on a certain hospital staff. Quite a change from when credentials were determined by training and ability. The winners in this scheme: big business, the insurance companies, the hospitals and the lawyers. The losers: doctors and their patients. PAUL M. PAVLOV, M.D. Ocean Springs, Mississippi...
...example, an almond-size knot of nerve cells located close to the brain stem, specializes in memories of fear; the basal ganglia, clumps of gray matter within both cerebral hemispheres, handle habits and physical skills; the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, governs conditioned learning (as when Pavlov's dogs salivated at the ringing of the dinner bell) and some reflexes...