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...study published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, graduate student Samuel T. Moulton ’01 and Psychology Professor Stephen M. Kosslyn used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess whether individuals can have knowledge that does not come from normal perceptual processes. This focus on the brain sets their study apart from previous ESP research...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Dispute ESP | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...change his mind, but he's said no." Under an agreement signed with U.S. authorities, David Hicks is prevented from profiting from any book deal and is subject to a 12-month gag order, which expires in March 2008. "The whole story needs to be told properly," says Stephen Kenny, the Australian lawyer who was one of the first to take up Hicks' case. "This can happen, and it has happened to other Australians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aussie Taliban Goes Free | 12/29/2007 | See Source »

Benazir Bhutto had long been an outspoken critic of Pakistani militants and this made her the mortal enemy of a galaxy of extremist forces inside Pakistan. "Bhutto was the only Pakistani politician willing to stand up and say, 'I don't like violent terrorists,'" says Stephen Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Many of these groups have intertwining histories and common loyalties - as well as shadowy links with Pakistani intelligence. As the probe into her assassination begins, investigators will have to sort through a morass of violent groups that were gunning for Bhutto. And while all have some historic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhutto's Jihadist Enemies | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...theater-savvy friend Victor Nelson asked me a few weeks ago about Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton's film version of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical. He wondered if Helena Bonham Carter was up to the vocal challenge of the Mrs. Lovett role. She's excellent, I replied; but aren't you anxious about Johnny Depp as the mad barber? He's not a trained singer. "Oh," Victor said with a knowing laugh, "Johnny Depp can do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeney Todd: Horror and Humanity | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

Sooner or later the politicians were bound to weigh in. On Nov. 7, Stephen Harper announced he was "concerned" about the dollar's "unprecedented" rise, an unusual Prime Ministerial foray on to Bank of Canada turf. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty met with the PM the next day, calling for lower interest rates and a federal contribution to a $1.1 billion jobs fund for struggling Ontario manufacturers. (Harper made no promises.) The same day, the Quebec Premier was demanding a loonie summit with all the provincial Premiers. (One is now scheduled for January). Just six weeks after the loonie achieved parity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Loonie Takes Off in Canada | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

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