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Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks knows all this - and too much else besides, to attempt any glib definitions. On the first page of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he writes that music "has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has no power of representation. It has no necessary relation to the world." His book is ostensibly just a survey of research and case histories of patients whose inner lives have been fundamentally changed by music. Yet in revealing the exquisite complexity of the ways in which our minds are attuned...
...drug trafficking. Back then, crack cocaine was associated with inner-city violence and drug-addicted babies, while the powdered version of the drug was considered yuppie nose candy. Congress cracked down so hard on crack that users who get caught with five grams of the stuff - about five Sweet'N Low packets' worth - get a minimum of five years in prison, which is more than the statutory maximum for simple possession of any quantity of powder cocaine, heroin or any other controlled substance. If that sounds draconian, the disparity in the penalties for trafficking is even greater. If dealers...
...When it comes to the college admissions process, vigor is hardly a virtue. The modern child may be a whiz at excelling in his courses and extracurriculars, but this does not make him capable of intellectualism. His schedule is jam-packed with all the stuff his hovering helicopter parents and college consultants have picked out for him. He learns the ways of networking and time management, not the ways of devouring a poem or pondering life’s great questions...
...collapse. "The U.S. is unlikely to ditch Pakistan and cut off all aid," says Teresita Schaffer, a 30-year State Department veteran and director of the South Asia program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "They have to continue working with Pakistan on Afghanistan and terror-related stuff." Schafer suggests that the U.S. could start making more distinctions about where the money goes...
...road is the one not traveled. “The most sustainable new building project is a building that is not built,” he said. “No matter how LEED certified the building is...buildings use up an immense amount of energy as does the stuff in the building...