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...Goldman-Rakic is probably best known for her research on working memory, which evolved out of these more fundamental discoveries. Working memory functions in the brain like a yellow sticky Post-it note. It's the place we put things to recall over the short term. We use working memory when we look up a telephone number and remember it only long enough to dial. We use it on a more basic level to remember the thread of an argument while we are trying to make a point. A brain without working memory is like a computer without...
...millions in Asia," according to a spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association. But Lonely Planet's position as the world's largest independent guidebook producer, with annual sales of its 430 titles pulling in $30 million, gives some indication. India and Southeast Asia on a Shoestring (the "yellow bible") are among the top sellers, with more than half a million bought of each. Founder Tony Wheeler is frequently cited as the man who changed the way we travel...
...Zheng He's journey were torched. China's heroic age was over; its open door had slammed shut. "The expeditions wasted tens of myriads of money and grain," a 15th century Minister of War complained. Roderick MacFarquhar, a sinologist at Harvard University, characterizes the conservative triumph this way: "Yellow River over blue water...
...would recognize much in Galle's narrow alleys where gem hustlers still ply their trade as they did almost 600 years ago. According to the admiral's chronicler Ma Huan, inland mountain streams flushed gems to the surface after heavy rains, a bounty of "red rubies, blue sapphires, yellow oriental topaz and other gems," he wrote. "There is a saying that the precious stones are the crystallized tears of Buddha...
...crossroads to decide which way to head. When my money ran out, I found ways of making enough to keep me going. I became a fortune-teller, a hairdresser, a peddler of fake toothpaste and pink chiffon scarves. I helped make sofas in Guizhou province and fished for yellow carp on Qinghai Lake. In the cities, I would camp in flea-ridden hostels, in the countryside I would often just sleep on the ground...