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...wasteful and unnecessary parliamentary debate in the general council. In addition, the plan to give this new Grants Committee twice as many members would allow the committee to better handle the large number of grant proposals it has to sift through. Hopefully, this will also lead to more rapid and effective grant approval...
...months later, the study group recommended the use of some of the new interrogation techniques at Guant??namo. Dropped from the list were hooding, nudity and use of phobias. Left in place or added were isolation, giving detainees rations instead of hot meals, sleep deprivation and the use of rapid-fire questions...
...unconscious mind can be trained. The psychologist John Gottman can watch a 15-minute videotape of a husband and wife about whom he knows nothing and predict with 90% accuracy whether they will still be married in 15 years. Gladwell, with his infernal gift for coining buzzwords, calls the rapid analysis performed by the unconscious mind "thin slicing...
...describing what it is--and treating conditions that interfere with it, such as anxiety, restless-leg syndrome and sleep apnea (see box). They've learned that most mammals, with the possible exception of dolphins and whales, cycle between two distinct phases of sleep, one of which is characterized by rapid eye movement--the famous REM sleep. The other is called, straightforwardly enough, non-REM sleep. Humans generally take about 90 minutes to complete a full cycle of REM and non-REM sleep. As dawn approaches, however, we spend more and more of that time in REM sleep and less...
Soon after, skating at 4-on-4, came a slapshot from Alison Lehrke that skidded through traffic and Boe’s five-hole for her second goal of the afternoon and a 3-1 Bulldogs advantage. Then followed a rapid pair of power-play goals—Boe’s final tally allowed and Vitt’s first—and the game was all but over...