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...waking subjects and asking them what was going on in their heads immediately before they were woken. But because certain parts of the brain are switched off during sleep, it shouldn't be assumed that subjects' answers will be accurate. They may have been having a dream but simply weren't paying attention, can't remember it, or both. "If you took a lot of the dream research to a physicist," says Conduit, "they'd laugh...
...Hobson-McCarley hypothesis. If their theory was right, then people with damage to a part of the brain stem called the pons-the on-off switch for REM sleep-shouldn't be having dreams. Solms, however, had five patients with lesions in precisely that region, and while they weren't having REM, they were nonetheless reporting dreams...
...planes (the government says it was just one), which the group had smuggled onto the island piece by piece over the past few years, to bomb an airfield adjacent to the country's international airport outside Colombo. The attack killed three and wounded 16, but officials say government planes weren't damaged. The air attack was so unexpected that the improvised bombers were able to make it back to rebel territory unharmed. The Tigers sent journalists photographs of its new "air wing," including close-ups of an airplane fitted with small bombs and a group shot showing Tiger pilots surrounding...
...women who depended on the hormones but were concerned about the danger, the investigators decided to take a second, closer look at the data. This time they teased the results apart more clearly into age groups. When they did, they found that the youngest of the women taking hormones weren't putting their hearts at risk so that there is a window of time, right around menopause, during which the therapy is relatively safe...
...instead cowering, paralyzed with dread, during the final showdown. It wasn't until the exploitation movies of the '60s and '70s--the ones paid lavish tribute in Grindhouse--that the gals in guy-genre films finally had something to do: take charge, kick ass and kill people. The films weren't exactly feminist, since the actresses usually had to take off their blouses before they could flex their muscles. But they gave women a snarly, ballsy attitude, and the chance to be as quick on the draw as John Wayne...