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...design for the Knafel Center (News, June 5) misrepresents the Mid Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission proceedings on May 30. While it is true that several of the commissioners (who are all "residents") applauded Harry Cobb's new design, the residents attending the hearing were given no opportunity to react to the proposal...
...Stores close just as often in other locations, she says. People simply react differently here...
...would have hoped that the commission would have listened to the neighbors before expressing this much pleasure with the approach," said John Pitkin, who heads the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. "It's hard to react to a design that's not fully fleshed...
What seems clear is that the ability to experience and react to music is deeply embedded in the biology of the nervous system. While music tends to be processed mostly in the right hemisphere of the brain, no single set of cells is devoted to the task. Different networks of neurons are activated, depending on whether a person is listening to music or playing an instrument, and whether or not the music involves lyrics...
...negative psychology--the fear--is further evidenced by how investors react to news. Before the spring sell-off, even bad news was a reason to buy because such an announcement cleared away any reason to sell. Now stocks like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are falling even on exceptional earnings reports. With the good news out, the new logic goes, there's nothing left to keep the stock up. Better sell. The scary thing is that there is no way to tell how long this irrational gloominess will rule. Investors should come to grips with the possibility that we have entered...