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...comply when he turns from amorous husband to platonic companion to apparent adulterer. Gandhi took on a magnetic personality in the presence of young women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments of sleeping and bathing naked together, without touching, all apparently to strengthen his chastity. (Whether these experiments were always successful is anyone's guess.) It is also revealed that Gandhi began a romantic liaison with Saraladevi Chaudhurani, niece of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore-a disclosure that has created a buzz in the Indian press. The author tells us that Gandhi, perhaps disingenuously...
...shores. Genocides spawn refugees, who destabilize their neighbors. Corruption sparks financial meltdowns, which rock the world economy. Pandemics hopscotch across the globe. Blair's answer was for Britain and the U.S., working through international institutions, to intervene more aggressively in the domestic affairs of other nations: to strengthen their financial and public-health systems, to push them toward capitalism and democracy, and in cases of extreme neglect and abuse, to take over the nation-building process by force...
...would you strengthen U.S. borders while at the same time respecting the civil and human rights of immigrants to America? -Martin Cheek from San Jose, California...
...collaboration between Harvard Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to create the new Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology marks a major step in the implementation of the December recommendations of the University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering (UPCSE), which aimed to strengthen scientific research at Harvard...
...Harvard's Stickgold believes dreams have a different function entirely. "I think it's pretty clear now that sleep and dreaming serve to process memories from the last day and all the way back," he says. "Sleep can strengthen memories... and help extract the meaning of events by building associative networks with other memories. Dreaming is probably a high-level version of this processing." Clearly, he adds, you don't have to remember your dreams for these processes to work. "The brain is tuning your memory circuits as you sleep, and remembering the imagery created during this process...