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Perhaps, Gould and her colleagues ventured in a recent paper, this purported transport mechanism provides a means of time-stamping memories, helping us keep track of when we learned what. Older memories would be somehow associated with older neurons. No one is even guessing how this might work. But if memories are indeed flowing through the brain in rivulets of new neurons, then all the old ideas will have to be reconsidered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Works: Lots of Action in the Memory Game | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...pile are the credit card solicitations. I've gotten these throughout college, but am finally considering them now that I'll have an income. Maybe I'll start by ordering the class picture. Or a videotape of the Commencement Morning Exercises. That way I'll be able to transport myself back to Harvard whenever I want, this assuming of course that I'll live in a place supplied with...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: Tackling the Post-Harvard Stack | 6/6/2000 | See Source »

Rollerblades are over. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for at least the rest of the year, their novelty is likely to be supplanted by an alternate mode of self-propulsion. Scooters, those nostalgic vehicles of 1950s suburban youth, have been updated and repackaged as urban transport and are being embraced by metropolitan commuters, thrill-seeking teens and those who occasionally find walking too great an inconvenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scooting Around in Style | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...quipped to Ford, "You dead yet?" 35. Break ground, in a way 36. __ the Dog 37. Oklahoma! character __ Annie 38. Sierra __, which is edging toward civil war 40. Credit-checking org. 41. __ es Salaam, Tanzania 42. Source of Italian bubbly 45. J. Fred Muggs, for one 47. Finn's transport 51. South Carolina's House voted to remove it 52. Meth. or Luth. 53. Natural emollient 54. Croupier's need 55. Kind of fingerprinting 56. O'Hara spread 57. [see other side] 58. Sloppy place 59. __ drug-makers have agreed to slash prices for Third World countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword May 29, 2000 | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

HALO, below, a futuristic combat game expected late this year from Bungie, is building buzz for its amazing graphics, rumored to be the most realistic ever. In one exciting sequence, you and your buddies team up to man different posts on a tanklike military transport--one person driving, another at the big gun, a third riding shotgun. Cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief At E3 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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