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...report "How To Tune Up Your Brain" [Jan. 16]. One of your articles made the case that communication technology today is a key factor in overstimulation and distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as though everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless e-mails...
...provincial vets were not adequately equipped." In the week that followed the Kocyigits' diagnosis, the who says, at least 16 other Turks in nine of the country's 81 provinces were diagnosed with the h5n1 virus - the largest number of known cases to occur in such a short span. And the virus kept spreading. Soon the World Organization for Animal Health recorded another 28 suspected bird outbreaks in 14 provinces. "Clearly there was a poor understanding as to how much spread of h5n1 there was in poultry in Turkey," says Guenael Rodier, leader of the who team in Turkey...
Everyone around the water cooler knows that meditation reduces stress. But with the aid of advanced brainscanning technology, researchers are beginning to show that meditation directly affects the function and structure of the brain, changing it in ways that appear to increase attention span, sharpen focus and improve memory...
...Michael Johnson, who competed in three Olympic Games over a span of a dozen years, avoiding a slump was mostly a matter of staying in control. "The first thing an athlete has to realize is that you are always in control," he says. "And you need to maintain that control." Control, that is, of both the body and the mind...
...freshman Jenny Brine said. “It’s definitely one of our goals to be at the top of our league.”The trip to upstate New York comprised two of Harvard’s mere three games over a 46-day span from mid-December to late January. The team will square off Wednesday night with a highly-touted New Hampshire squad, which dealt the Crimson its first shutout in over four years in a recent visit to the Bright Center. Despite the possible rust acquired over winter vacation and reading period, the victories...