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...life is too much. The connection between the death penalty and racially charged cases is well documented, and the system needs to be reevaluated to eliminate biases. In an age where all of Western Europe, Canada, and many other countries have abolished the death penalty, it is hard to understand how the United States, with its explicit constitutional denunciation of “cruel and unusual punishment,” can justify retaining such anachronistic, unjust, and inherently flawed barbarism. We can only hope that the justices of the Supreme Court, who voted 7-2 in favor of the stay...
...Brainbow technique has other applications aside from studying of the brain. “It can be used for many things because it can look at any interaction of any cell at any time,” Livet said. Lichtman hopes to use the new technique to better understand how the brain develops. “In mammals, wiring changes as we grow-up, and the connections made earlier begin to be trimmed,” he said. “We hope to understand this reorganization and get a better idea of how the brain selects which connections...
...seemed to understand the motivation about why people did things. He grew up in two worlds: the one he came from and the one he was in. He referenced from one back to the other as he moved forward in life,” Hain said...
...Card. The divide here could more aptly be called an “Achievement Abyss”: it’s really deep, and there is no foreseeable edge. Unlike its urban counterpart, rural poverty does not see six-figure salaries every day on the subway. It does not understand how education is a means to success because it sees neither. It does not perceive its own strangeness because it so rarely travels away from the abandoned storefronts and dilapidated streets of Helena...
...Palestinians. But the dialogue itself—not favoritism—is what deserves the viewers’ consideration. Removing politics from such an emotional event as suicide bombing is difficult, and talking without listening is prevalent in discussions about peace in the Middle East. Politicians need to understand the problems in communication to improve the reality—and for that reason alone, “To Die in Jerusalem” should be shown to a larger audience than it will probably reach. —Staff writer Alina Voronov can be reached at avoronov@fas.harvard.edu...