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...Senator Joe Biden of Delaware was frustrated enough in an appearance on the Today show Thursday to suggest scrapping hearings altogether. "The system's kind of broken," Biden said. By the time three witnesses from the American Bar Association took the floor to explain why they had given Alito the ABA's highest possible rating, Democrats could already see the writing on the wall. The final blow came when a panel of seven current and former judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals lined up to praise their colleague on the bench. Vermont's Senator Patrick Leahy...
...Although such techniques may sound far-fetched, many therapists-and their patients-swear by them. And recent advances in brain-scanning technology suggest a mechanism by which they might work. "With fmris [functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain], we are starting to locate centers of creativity in the left prefrontal cortex, in the same area that lights up for heightened meditative states and the capacity for optimism," says Ron Alexander, a therapist based in Santa Monica, Calif., who specializes in treating creative blocks...
...chemistry and biology,” he writes.THE VIEW FROM THE AUDIENCEHeller says that students have been doing “phenomenally well” overall, citing the high mean score of the class on the most recent hourly exam. “[The feedback offered by students] collectively suggests their comprehension of and enthusiasm for the material presented in this course,” Liu writes. Several students say that they admire the premise of the course. “I think it was a really good concept to combine all the different aspects of science in order...
...Street curmudgeons will tell you the 11,000 mark doesn't matter, that it's just a number. But after six years without making a dime, as the Dow's long doldrums suggest has been the average investor's experience, hitting a big number like 11,000-and holding it-may be more important than many believe. The stock market is as much an emotional barometer as it is a gauge of the economy. Indeed, if stocks were purely rational, the Dow would have set a new record by now. GDP growth is on track, inflation is tame, corporate earnings...
...caffeinated drink or another before setting off to conquer the intellectual challenges waiting at the university just up the street. "A mathematician," the legendary number theorist Paul Erdos used to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Organic chemistry, neuroscience, psychology and pretty much universal experience suggest that he probably was on to something...