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...following a system of nomenclature in which areas of the brain responsible for vision are named V1, V2, V3 and so forth in order of their discovery, the researchers were obliged to name the new area of the visual system they identified after the tomato-based juice...
...retina, then by a lower brain area, and then by the cerebral cortex. The image first goes to the least specialized region of the cortex, known as V1. As information is subject to more processing, it goes to higher and more specialized areas of the visual cortex designated as V2, V3 and so forth...
...wary of the practice. Country-music hitmaker Mike Curb, best known for discovering LeAnn Rimes, vows not to use pay-for-play, fearing that the financial lure may tempt stations to start refusing songs unless they're paid. Another opponent is Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and head of V2 Records, who is worried that pay-for-play will turn listeners off by allowing inferior music on the airwaves. "If radio doesn't give the people what they want," he warns, "the people will go to other mediums...
...gabardine skirt. Declares Ungaro: "A woman doesn't need a lot of money to be elegant. She can be chic with clothes bought from a supermarket chain." In the men's market, where the move toward lower- priced lines is less pronounced, second collections include Versace's V2 and Armani's Mani...
...about man the symbol-making animal desperately trying to build a protective system of meaning over his head while at the same time blind technology increases the odds that something will bash his head in. Pynchon begins, appropriately enough, in wartime London, with German V rockets (V1 and V2) raining random destruction on the city...