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Spector, Phil •wall of scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

Right now, neither pride nor condescension is the order of the day. Revelations of the tawdry behavior of modern MPs - expensing everything from improvements to second homes to their spouse's porn - have led to popular outrage in Britain and claimed the scalp of the Speaker of the House of Commons, a supposedly above-the-fray symbol of Parliament's reputation. The scandal has exposed what anyone who has spent time in the House of Commons knows well; that many of its members are has-beens and never-will-bes, self-important rhetoricians inebriated (as one truly great parliamentarian said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment: London | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...time when Congress is looking to scalp those responsible for corporate misdeeds, the fact that Greenberg was invited as an expert - not a corporate villain - is a measure of his redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Looks to AIG's Greenberg for Help | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...group of nine healthy adults and presented each with a list of eight beverages, which they were asked to rate in appeal on a scale of 1 to 5. The investigators then outfitted each participant with a headband equipped with fiber-optic strands that projected infrared light through the scalp and skull and into the prefrontal cortex, a brain area critical for processing preference. Infrared imaging is typically used to detect heat, which is just what the researchers were looking for. The volunteers were shown pictures of different pairs of drinks from their original list and asked to mentally decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Mind Reading Help Locked-In Patients? | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Though the number of available tickets was higher than previous years, Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a student representative on CCL, said after the meeting that a shortage led students to scalp tickets to their classmates...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover and Weiqi Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: CCL Discusses Crisis, Student Life | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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