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...differences in the subjects' brain scans were equally striking. The typical pain signal follows a well-worn path from the brain stem through the midbrain and into the cortex, where conscious feelings of pain arise. In Schulz-Stbner's study, the hypnotized group showed subcortical brain activity similar to that of nonhypnotized volunteers, but the primary sensory cortex stayed quiet. The "ouch" message wasn't making it past the midbrain and into consciousness...
...Florida ace Bryan Augenstein. Haviland made it through the first two innings unscathed, but struggled with his location in a three-run Florida third. In four and a third innings, the sophomore allowed five runs, all earned, on six hits and two walks. Once again, the bullpen failed to stem the bleeding, yielding seven hits, four walks, and five runs for the rest of the game. Harvard saved the worst for Sunday’s 17-6 rout. Veteran right-hander Javier Castellanos, a senior, was alternately hittable and wild after earning the nod, and the bullpen turned...
...document weighs in on genocide, avian flu, AIDS, drug cartels and other stateless threats to American safety, but it doesn't offer a new strategy on these topics, beyond reiterating what the administration has done such as the $15 billion, five-year effort to stem AIDS. As with much of life, especially in Washington, the details get worked out later...
...teaching of Islam 101, said that the first few seminars will focus on such basic issues as the Koran, the life of Muhammad and his family, and the role of women in Islam. She said the seminars will also address contemporary issues such as the Muslim stance on stem cell research. Nguyen estimated that at least 30 people would attend the seminar. According to HIS Treasurer Saheer A. Rizvi ’08, although the class will be similar to a course, it will be less stressful. “There are no discussion sections, no tests; no time commitment...
...just yourself, then we are living in a society in which there is no society,” Guinier said, drawing applause from the three-dozen or so audience members. A senior associate dean of the Business School, David A. Thomas, expressed concerns about the consequences that could stem from African-American elites abandoning inner-city areas. “The urban core will be thought of like reservations,” said Thomas. And—in much the same way that Americans who don’t live on reservations sometimes discuss vague ancestral ties to indigenous tribes?...