Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jordan has played a crucial role in the peace process, often serving as a bridge between Israel and the Arab powers in the region...
...There have been wars in our region for 30 to 40 years. The people in our part of the world have just had enough," he said. "I believe Jordanians are just saying 'let there be peace...
With the onset of globalization, Abdullah said, ensuring security in the Middle East is necessary to bringing prosperity to the region...
Damasio cites the case of a young woman who at age 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, entered a netherworld of nonstop epileptic seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...
...brain. Their seizures, strokes and diseases, while damaging the hippocampus, leave core consciousness unimpaired. That's because it evolved much earlier than extended consciousness, Damasio says, and thus is dependent on more ancient structures, especially those located within the brain stem and hypothalamus. Among the most important: a large region called the cingulate cortex, which not only receives sensory input from the skin, muscles and internal organs but also sends out signals to initiate movement and focus attention, as when emotions send our blood pressure soaring or make our hair stand...