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...advances in brain science, it shouldn't surprise that the riddle of dreaming hasn't been cracked. "We still don't know why we sleep, let alone why we dream," says Dorothy Bruck, professor of psychology at Melbourne's Victoria University. It seems commonsensical that sleep is a restorative phase for brain and body, and there's some evidence that the effects of sleep deprivation are the result of minor brain damage that would normally be repaired when we're asleep. But despite their best efforts, scientists have been unable to pinpoint what's going on in sleep that makes...
...TRADE 40% Tariff on U.S. beef that South Korea will phase out over the next 15 years, part of a landmark free-trade agreement reached April 2 between Washington and Seoul that will eliminate tariffs on most types of goods traded between the two countries 400% Premium above global market prices that South Koreans will continue to pay for rice, due to tariffs and subsidies protecting Korean rice farmers that Seoul refused to eliminate as part of the trade deal
...killing of 13 soldiers in 1983. Fighting has gone on for so long now that it has brutalized an entire society, creating a culture of violence that haunts the country whether there is fighting or not. In his exquisitely written novel Anil's Ghost, set in an earlier phase of the conflict, Sri Lankan-born Michael Ondaatje describes the unnatural horrors that grip this tropical South Asian island of 21 million people. In Sri Lanka, Ondaatje writes, "the reason...
...since his freshman year.“My hat’s off especially to Enoch,” Brand said. “This year, he doubled his efforts. Considering it’s his senior year, where he’s starting to go into the next phase of his life, the fact that he was able to work hard and really commit himself this year is impressive.”The men’s two additional fencers, senior saber Dan Sachs and sophomore foil Kai Itameri-Kinter, both placed 15th individually.The Crimson women also boasted some...
...putting himself center stage. Written for Neil Armfield's hallowed Company B, Ruben Guthrie follows the life of a young TV scriptwriter as he enters Alcoholics Anonymous, and was penned during Cowell's 11 months back on the wagon. "It was in that [turning-30] Saturn return-phase, if that exists, so it was a very reflective, very confronting year," says Cowell, in another unguarded moment. As Noise writer-director Matthew Saville points out, "He doesn't throw up barriers to the world, or to himself, which makes him sort of exploratory." And a multi-tasked talent well worth discovering...