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...when they lose, it is only after a tough wrestling match. The few people who approve of pushing an innocent man onto the tracks take longer to reach their decision. So too with people who approve of smothering a crying baby rather than catching the attention of enemy troops who would then kill the baby along with other innocents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

Some philosophers maintain that solving the problem of consciousness is beyond the reach of human intelligence. This is very odd and, I believe, untrue. It fits a sensible intuition that the mind is something special and different, separable from the brain, but the fact that the intuition is sensible does not make it right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: A Story We Tell Ourselves | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...hear it every year: if you freak out during an exam and have to be whisked away to UHS, you’ll be held “incommunicado.” That’s what they think: FM is here with 15 ways to reach the outside world if the “man” has got you on lockdown. 1) Flicker the lights in Morse Code with the hope that a steamy Navy Seal is standing near the window and can use his bulging muscles to rescue you from captivity. 2) Tap frantically...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WAYS TO CONTACT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IF HELD INCOMMUNICADO | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...piece of this is not very often I think seen, as we're also reaching out to the Iranian people. This is a great culture. The tragedy is there should be relations between the United States and Iran. It's a great culture, it's a great people. But the - it's not possible with this regime clearly, but we have a group of wrestlers from the United States going to Iran in a couple days. We've had medical personnel from Iran here. They went to the CDC and, you know, and places like that. So we're trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice | 1/13/2007 | See Source »

...plan, which faces the hurdle of coordinating the priorities of faculty and administrators.“Everyone involved in advising in every concentration,” Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere wrote in an e-mail, “is thinking hard about ways in which to reach out to students more effectively, to get information to students in a timely way, and to help foster productive advising relationships.”The bill will be formally brought before administrators and the Committee on Undergraduate Education at a meeting in the end of January, according to Colbert...

Author: By Alexandra Hiatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Pushes for Cost Control | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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