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Here's a mental exercise for you: picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean. Glossy palm fronds twist gently in the temperate wind, as islanders harvest coconuts along the immaculate powder-white beaches. Leathery sea turtles bob lazily off shore and the light cacophony of birdsong accents the ambient sound of wind and waves...
...considers Western, including beauty. Now the billboards display attractive black-and-white photographs of grinning revolutionaries and Islamic calligraphy that resembles urban graffiti. One morning a white van with PEYK-E KHORSHID (MESSENGER OF THE SUN) emblazoned on its sides rolled into my neighborhood, and two women in powder blue chadors opened its doors to unveil a portable library. They smiled at passersby and handed out white gladioluses and free books as part of a municipal program to promote reading. I got children's editions of epic Persian poetry to read to my nephew. "This is positive, at least," said...
...than becoming a surgeon, and requires a considerably stronger stomach). But his book is also peppered with fascinating diversions into the macho culture of sushi bars, the physiology of octopuses, and the cultivation of wasabi, a plant so rare that sushi restaurants almost always substitute a blend of mustard powder and horseradish...
Young predicts deal jumping will become even more common as takeover candidates become scarcer. "Eventually there's going to be fewer and fewer targets," he said. And when that happens, it could get nasty. "Private-equity firms still have a lot of powder to burn, and they're going to have to start being more competitive, and we'll potentially see more deal jumps...
...cortex to speed up the natural reversal. Such enhancement would give the higher regions of the brain a fighting chance against the amygdala, a more basal region that plays a role in priming the dopamine-reward system when certain cues suggest imminent pleasure--anything from the sight of white powder that looks like cocaine to spending time with friends you used to drink with. It's that conditioned reflex--identical to the one that caused Ivan Pavlov's famed dog to salivate at the ringing of a bell after it learned to associate the sound with food--that unleashes...