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...will be a shame, and an opportunity wasted. Memory has a richly self-stimulating dynamic. You remember one detail - an image from long ago, or, quite often, a smell (smell and song being extraordinary stimuli to memory), and soon those images or smells or lyrics breed a thousand more, and an entire world comes flooding back. The lost world reassembles itself as story...
Last Thursday, 13 days after the attack, Jessie's parents put him in a wheelchair and rolled him around the intensive-care unit, IVs dangling behind them. Jessie responds to pain stimuli, and his eyes are open. But his parents are not sure he can see them. At his bedside, they talk to him about Digimon cartoons and other things he enjoys. The parents were there when De Campos moved Jessie's reattached arm to make him more comfortable, and the boy moved it back. They were there when he wiggled his hand. "They continue to view every small step...
...second quarter, just passed, may have been one in which we were close to or below zero growth. It now looks like the worst of it is over, because two big economic stimuli - Greenspan's series of rate cuts and the tax-rebate checks set to start arriving in August - are about to kick in. Consumers have always been nearly impossible to fathom, but at this point it's counterintuitive to think that consumer spending will now start to decrease with those two things on their...
...Smart hearts (and other embedded smart organs) will have unlimited access to the Internet except for stock market quotes and other trauma-inducing stimuli. Such restrictions do not apply to smart brains...
Fair enough, but did anyone? Spitzer measured his "good heterosexual functioning" with decidedly subjective standards--asking the respondents if their heterosexual experiences were satisfying. More rigorous studies might have looked for signs of physical arousal in the presence of various stimuli. What's more, his work has not yet been published or peer reviewed, two basic stripes that studies usually must earn to be taken seriously...