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The New Map Of The Brain (User's Guide To The Brain)

There are uncharted worlds inside your head, but science is drawing a map

The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness (A User's Guide To The Brain / What is Consciousness?)

You exist, right? Prove it. How 100 billion jabbering neurons create the knowledge--or illusion--that you're here

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Five Paths to Understanding the Brain

From gruesome ancient rituals to modern pharmacology, mankind had been trying to discover what's really going on inside our heads. A short history

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Mysteries of Conciousness

Sarah Scantlin is a living medical miracle. An accident injured her brain so severely she should have died, but 20 years later she has regained the ability to speak
• Sarah Scantlin's Dad Speaks

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Exercise Your Brain

Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us how we can keep our memory as we age and even create new brain cells through mental and physical exercise
• Dr. Gupta Interviews Professor Arthur Kramer

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• Blind Learn To See With Tongue
• Helping The Blind To See
• A Look Inside A Baby's Brain
• How Your Brain Handles Stress
• Coping With Stress

The Brain: What Do Babies Know? (A User's Guide To The Brain)

Less than we thought, say scientists at the new Babylab. What passed for intelligence may have been boredom

The Brain: The Flavor Of Memories (A User's Guide To The Brain)

Emotions turn out to be key in how we remember--and can help us recast traumas dredged from the past

The Brain: Marketing To Your Mind (A User's Guide To The Brain)

With new scanning technologies, smart companies may soon sell their products directly to the decider in chief: the brain itself

The Brain: The Power of Hope (A User's Guide To The Brain)

We say Sweet dreams when we induce general anesthesia--but nobody dreams. Consciousness stops.With anesthesia, however, we know how to undo the spell. You wake up when the operation is over, and there you are again. Not so when you drop into the coma of an advanced brain tumor

The Brain: The Gift Of Mimicry (A User's Guide To The Brain)

Why monkeys see and do, why babies smile at mothers and why our skin crawls at scary movies

BRIEFING

Founders' Fuzziness (Notebook: Nation / The Battle for Control of the War)

Thanks to them, Congress and Presidents have always tangled over war

Behind the Republican Revolt (Notebook: Nation / The Battle for Control of the War)

Opposition to the President's war policies is growing among members of his own party in Congress. Unlike Bush, they have to run again in '08

NATION

The Democrats' New Western Stars (Campaign 2008)

Joe Klein looks at the Democratic revival in the Rocky Mountains, where a raft of colorful candidates are winning over independents — and even some Republicans

Hillary's Iraq Shuffle (Viewpoint)

Her husband was a master of triangulation, but that may not work on the war

WORLD

At Baghdad's Ground Zero

Sadr City is home to Iraq's worst death squads. In a new push to pacify Baghdad, here's how U.S. forces hope to take it back

Kyoto, Heal Thyself (Going Green)

The city synonymous with green is struggling to live up to the environmental agreement that bears its name

BUSINESS

SOCIETY

Duped Dads Fight Back

More men are pushing for laws to free them from child support when DNA shows they're not the real father. Is this about justice or deserting kids?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Trouble With Sundance (The Big Picture)

Once an exciting alternative to Hollywood, Richard Corliss argues, the indie films that come out of the well-hyped festival have gone fat and soft

YOUR TIME

SPECIAL SECTION

Hong Kong Soars (Global Business)

A technology-led strategy has recast the city as an indispensable hub of global supply

Manners Matters (Global Business)

Business-etiquette gurus are thriving. There's a difference between the informal and the uncivil

PEOPLE

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