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Within explicit, or declarative, memory, on the other hand, there are specific subsystems that handle shapes, textures, sounds, faces, names--even distinct systems to remember nouns vs. verbs. All of these different types of memory are ultimately stored in the brain's cortex, within its deeply furrowed outer layer--a component of the brain dauntingly more complex than comparable parts in lesser species. Experts in brain imaging are only beginning to understand what goes where, and how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole...
...Bring the Pain's most talked-about bit was Rock's searing riff on "black people vs. niggas." It was a caustic comic commentary that contrasted the values of upwardly mobile blacks with those who had given in to a kind of gangsta nihilism. "There's like a civil war going on with black people," Rock declared. "There are two sides: there's black people, and there's niggas. And niggas have got to go." Niggas, in Rock's view, were a source of ignorance, violence, family dysfunction. It was a riff that resembled traditional stand-up comedy...
...season: 1) The Kansas City Chiefs are going to be really bad this year; 2) Warren Moon still at least looks like a football player and 3) The Kansas City Chiefs are going to be even worse than we thought. Which brings us to Sunday, and Soldier Field, Chiefs vs. Bears in a match that's definitely old-school ? say circa 1978, when 4-12 looked like a decent year to both squads. It looks that way again ? the Chiefs have lost both starting cornerbacks, their coach and probably what's left of their dignity after an awful preseason, while...
...DANCE VS. DANCE What will be the Macarena of the millennium? Mambo No. 5, an old Cuban tune with new words and its own dance steps, tops the charts in 15 countries and request lists in the U.S. But Chicagoans are betting on the "milly," a funky nine-step dance (instructions above) they have learned in droves and will perform on New Year's Eve. Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this...