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...finger on,” Sanes says. “What spot in the brain accounts for how we act? When somebody has a nervous breakdown, what is actually breaking down? We’re beginning to claw our way there.”But as Sanes and Lichtman seek to add to human understanding, they say they’re also hoping to attract undergrads to their field. Both teach MCB 80: “Neurobiology of Behavior,” where they say the sheer amount of new material in recent years illustrates the growing importance of neurobiology...
...trip to Iraq came just a week after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Baghdad. "My coming here is to tell French companies: the time has come. Come and invest!" Sarkozy declared, explaining to his host, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, how French investment would be mutually beneficial. "We seek cooperation in the economic field, energy, rebuilding, and to help the police, security and Iraqi military forces, as well as restoring the international position of Iraq," Sarkozy promised. "We want to encourage all European countries to come. It is in Europe's interest to extend a hand here...
...Caracas CHAVEZ WITHOUT LIMITS Venezuelan voters passed a referendum to remove presidential term limits, allowing President Hugo Chvez to seek re-election indefinitely. The constitutional amendment, supported by 54% of voters (including these Chvez supporters, above), comes more than a year after the leftist leader's first attempt was shot down. Chvez says the measure was necessary to continue his socialist reforms; critics say it has brought the country closer to dictatorship...
...suicide bombers--allowed a few thousand fighters to hold their own for decades against the Sri Lankan army's 50,000 soldiers. So the most recent army offensive uses a new strategy. The military clears people from every stretch of territory it captures. Those displaced must either seek shelter deeper in Tiger territory or surrender to government forces, which move them into camps. The result is a sort of scorched-earth policy that has helped the army capture and keep control of territory that the Tigers have held for more than a decade...
...soil, a loyal defender of the Sinhalese Buddhist majority. "The average Sinhalese person trusts him," says Saravanamuttu. "He's seen very much as a man of the people." The war has the overwhelming support of Sri Lanka's rural heartland in the south, and Rajapaksa is unlikely to seek a truce when triumph is finally within sight. All that remains is to find Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tiger commander who has outlasted five Sri Lankan Presidents and is wanted for ordering the assassination of an Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi...