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...VIVID CHILDREN'S LITERATURE...
While some memories are undoubtedly repressed, the belief that they can be recovered in vivid detail, through such techniques as visualization and hypnosis, makes many scientists skeptical. The latest work on the brain suggests that our memories are always dynamic and never quite whole. From the moment we experience them, our perceptions are broken down into fragments that are stored all over the brain. The memory of a rose, for example, doesn't exist in any one place in the cerebrum. Instead it is created anew every time a person thinks about it, from subunits of sensation based on color...
...amazed as soon as I saw the first signs of the golf course. The grass was so green, the flowers so vivid...
...BARINGS' COLLAPSE CANNOT BE BLAMED solely on derivatives. A system that permits a trader any access, however limited, to the back-office process (settlement, accounting, mark to market) is a blueprint for disaster. No maxim is more fundamental for a financial institution. Mark Martinelli Mahwah, New Jersey WHAT A VIVID LESSON YOUR ARTICLE teaches the world's newly freed people who are struggling to embrace the wonders of free enterprise. Santford W. Martin Atlanta...
More than any other Russian playwright, Chekhov is perceived in America as relevant to our age. This may be owing to his trafficking in gloom (any impulse toward optimism being, of course, evidence of callowness). But even his darkest interludes are subtle and variegated. There's a vivid moment in one of his stories when an awestruck boy beholds a flash of lightning: "someone seemed to strike a match in the sky." Something lovely is always dancing beyond Chekhov's horizon, toward which his characters gaze with palpable yearning...