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...Psychologists refer to the phenomenon as ‘cryptomnesia,’” Schacter wrote in an e-mail. “Psychologists conceive of cryptomnesia as a failure of source memory, where one retrieves previously stored information, and attributes that information to the wrong source...
...August of 2005, more than year before Snakes would hit theaters, when a blog posting made be screenwriter Josh Friedman would give fans a first taste of what was in the works - and would give followers of this phenomenon a taste of what fans find irresistible about the concept. "It makes me giggle like the fat, lazy schoolgirl I am," he said. "If Sam Jackson thinks he's doing a movie called SNAKES ON A PLANE...you're doing a movie called SNAKES ON A PLANE...
...Tota Dance Bar, owner Della Levanos, 45, is determined to fight back. "Terrorism is a 21st century phenomenon," said Levanos, who says "fate" brought her to the Sinai 20 years ago from Australia and she never left. "London, New York, Madrid, Dahab. It could happen anywhere." Then she took a piece of chalk and scribbled a message in big letters on Tota's blackboard menu facing the promenade. "Stop Violence Everywhere," it said. "Stop All War." It's a new, less celebratory slogan for Tota. But after three successive terrorist attacks in what ought to be one of the most...
...exhibited a striking ability to rein themselves in, a habit that not only augmented the more fragile tonalities of the piece but which would also continue throughout the night as a recurring strength of the performance.Yannatos left the stage after the Wagnerian conclusion and returned with violin phenomenon Jackiw. Standing hesitantly next to the ebullient Yannatos, Jackiw appeared almost out of place as the orchestra began to set up the musical canvas, but upon diving into the piece with a dramatic downbow, Jackiw seized the stage for himself.Jackiw has the tremendous ability to skip about the violin and draw every...
...Assistant Anthropology Professor Lamia N. Karim at the University of Oregon felt the need to add reminders about proper e-mail etiquette to her course syllabus. Karim said a recent New York Times article about the subject made her realize that “this was not an isolated phenomenon, but much wider.” “I wanted to make the use of e-mail communication more efficient,” Karim said of the reasoning behind her syllabus addition. “I was getting a lot of mundane messages,” Karim added, citing...