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Subjects were monitored while identifying colors in pictures that were both black and white and colored. When subjects under hypnosis were asked to see color, neuronal activity was detected in the basic color-identifying portion of the brain even when the pictures were black and white. This observation led the team to conclude that the hypnosis was not somehow tricking the brain into seeing color—through the hypnosis, the brain actually was seeing a colored image...
...districts used from 1994 to 2000 divided Cambridge primarily into three House districts—two of which were entirely within the city. A tiny portion of the city was part of a fourth district...
...Congress. One approach would be to make the tax laws self-enforcing. The False Claims Act already allows private individuals to file “qui tam” lawsuits against those defrauding the government. If they win, the government receives treble damages, and the plaintiffs take home a portion of the proceeds—normally around 25 percent. Originally designed to catch fraudulent military contractors during the Civil War, the act was revised in 1986 to increase rewards and to protect employee whistleblowers. Since then, the law has recovered more than $9 billion of public money...
...Great Place to Work Survey” was originally administered to a portion of the University workforce in 1999. Starting last month, some of the University’s schools have begun to administer the survey once again...
...Reilly nearly delivered on his promise of only fifteen minutes of lecture, devoting the remaining portion of the event, which he said would be broadcast, to a question and answer period...