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...Palestinian control. His objective is not to stop the peace process altogether, but to be in control of it and drive hard bargains. While Barak had been weighing the Clinton plan to retreat from 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, Sharon is likely to offer short-term withdrawal from only another 13 percent of the West Bank, and invite the Palestinians to negotiate further. Rather than shutting down the process altogether, he's more likely to work to keep channels open and prevent himself being isolated as a hard-liner, which might ultimately doom him domestically...
Wilson and his team implanted sensors in the hippocampus of rats, the part of the brain that is responsible for short-term memory in both rats and humans. The team tracked the activity of a dozen to a few dozen of the neurons in the hippocampus--only a tiny fraction of the cells in that part of the brain...
Amnesiacs may have been able to later remember the Tetris game because their neocortexes, which analyze short-term memory and establish longer-term memory, were undamaged...
...action due out Wednesday, it means that Greenspan and his colleagues have to cut short-term interest rates that much further to stay ahead of the curve. In a week, the markets have gone from "quarter-point, maybe a half-point" expectations to "definitely a half-point," and behaved accordingly. A quarter-point cut would now be an absolute disaster on the Street, a half-point will make little more than a ripple...
Here's my explanation for the stock slump: At some point, one of the big players in the market got a little nervous and sold out to preserve a billion dollars in short-term profits. This scared all the rest of the big players, and like lemmings, they followed suit. It is these big players who cause the problems, not the little guys like me who have invested only a few thousand dollars. The big players could do all of us a gigantic favor by thinking long term like the rest of us, the little guys. MARK DORNBLASER Lafayette, Colo...