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...Kissinger, 49, a Bavarian-born Harvard professor of urbane and subtle intelligence, a creature of Cambridge and Georgetown who cherishes a never entirely convincing reputation as an international bon vivant and superstar. Yet together in their unique symbiosis?Nixon supplying power and will, Kissinger an intellectual framework and negotiating skills???they have been changing the shape of the world, accomplishing the most profound rearrangement of the earth's political powers since the beginning of the cold...
THEIR DOUBTS increased when they found that a trained animal generally remembered its skills despite attempts to disrupt its cerebral electrical activity by intense cold, drugs, shock or other stress; only short-term memory?of recently learned skills???was impaired. There was an obvious conclusion: while short-term memory may be partly electrical, long-term memory must be carried in something less ephemeral than an electric current...
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