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...them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so super-cool, it's chilly. In his elaborate visual construct, virtually every shot is followed by with the camera point-of-view shifted 90 or 180 degrees - which is geometrically groovy, no question, but pretty quickly predictable. Same goes for his stories, which rely on gifted people behaving goofily. Anderson has the attitude for comedy, but not the aptitude. His films are museum artifacts of what someone thought could be funny. They...
...calls are growing for a regional free-trade deal to tie all the small ones together. That, of course, would require the US, Japan and China to open their markets to one another. "If someone proposed that today," Oxley says, "people would say, You're mad." But that view is changing: last year "the U.S. surprised everyone by announcing they were interested in the idea of an APEC free-trade area." This year came a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Korea. "Nobody expected that to happen," Oxley says. "It's resulted in a very serious look in Japan...
...residing in the bedrock of science, including that consciousness and memories are localized in the brain. As astounding as it may be, he argues, the implication of NDEs is that consciousness can be experienced in some alternative dimension without our body-linked concepts of time and space. "In my view, the brain is not producing consciousness, but it enables us to experience our consciousness," he says. He compares the brain to a television, which receives programs by decoding information from electromagnetic waves. Likewise, he says, "the brain decodes from only a part of our enhanced consciousness, which we experience...
...Nelson's theory has been picked apart by two veterans of the field who could be said to favor a more spiritual view of NDEs. In a recent issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, Americans Jeffrey Long and Janice Miner Holden argue that since 40% of NDErs in Nelson's study denied ever having had an episode of REM intrusion, the idea that it underlies NDEs "seems questionable at best...
...Betrayed by the Bureaucrats Thanks to Jeff Israely for his blunt, revealing discussion of Italy's misruling class [Aug. 13]. Sometimes you need to see a situation from an outsider's point of view to become aware of something relevant. Reading Israely's merciless words, I reconsidered the recent shameful behavior of our politicians, and by the end of the article, I felt very embarrassed. So this is the way the world sees us! Yet I would really like to put in a word for a politician who is trying to do his best: Pier Luigi Bersani is striving...