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...looked at the photos, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel a snowy walkway or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. JEFFREY N. ACHBER Laconia...
...that fiendishly complicated puzzle of stars and planets and whirling gas clouds whenever I think about the promise of human-intelligence enhancement. How much quicker and more acute do people really want to be? How many more bits per cubic inch of gray matter do people wish they could store? People whose minds are generally healthy, that is. People who, for their age and condition, are already smart enough...
...processed food and prepared meals are at a disadvantage because omega-6s interfere with the conversion of ALA to DHA. For vegetarians and vegans, there is one nonfish source of long-chain omega-3s: supplements made from algae. (Algae is the source of the omega-3s that fish store in their...
Indeed, some argue that the era is well under way. There's already a lively market for brain boosters. Herbs and supplements with names like Focusfactor and Brain Quicken clutter health-store shelves and the Internet, often with little scientific basis for their claims. Pill popping in some circles has become as American as SAT-prep classes. Students and professionals in growing numbers are taking potentially addictive stimulants like Ritalin to focus their minds and bolster their memory...
...shop floor of NAC Jewellers, a store in the South Indian city of Madras, is full of exquisitely wrought necklaces in gold and silver, but the prize possession of the owners is a photograph that hangs upstairs in a small office. It shows a tall crown studded with 4,000 diamonds and made from seven kilograms of gold. Four craftsmen from NAC Jewellers spent six months making the crown, at a cost of about $700,000. It now rests on a statue of the goddess Padmavathi Devi at the Tiruchanur Shrine in South India. Anantha Padmanaban, a partner...