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...Will Reno pull the trigger this time? TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak weighs...
...Montana to make their stand. And no matter how hard Caddell and the Davidians try to turn a tragedy into a crime, the dead will still be dead, and men like David Koresh will still be just as responsible for that as any FBI agent with a hair trigger...
...recent standards, anyway) Friday after hearing the fair-to-middling good news about wholesale prices from the Labor Department. The Producer Price Index, a bottom-of-the-food-chain indicator of inflation pressure, was unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed by the second, leaving Wall Street with a slight urge...
There is evidently no way to help these unfortunate folks (though, admittedly, they don't know what they're missing). But for instrumentalists, at least, music can evidently trigger physical changes in the brain's wiring. By measuring faint magnetic fields emitted by the brains of professional musicians, a team led by Christo Pantev of the University of Muenster's Institute of Experimental Audiology in Germany has shown that intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated with higher brain function...
...music's emotional impact, there is some indication that music can affect levels of various hormones, including cortisol (involved in arousal and stress), testosterone (aggression and arousal) and oxytocin (nurturing behavior) as well as trigger release of the natural opiates known as endorphins. Using PET scanners, Zatorre has shown that the parts of the brain involved in processing emotion seem to light up with activity when a subject hears music...