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If you periodically misplace your car keys but can have no problem calling up random bits of trivia, that is one of the nuances of your hippocampus. Located deep within the temporal lobe, it is the part of the brain that handles memory. It holds short-term memories and transfers them to long-term storage. Long-term memories…Read More

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Hello there,The speed of this week’s record rally in the Taiwan dollar had one analyst describing it as feeling like a sort of “Asian-crisis-in-reverse”. It is certainly a warning sign for the U.S. dollar, suggesting that Asian demand for the greenback is shifting and investors and exporters are at…Read More

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In a town of just 8,000 inhabitants in the state of Goa lie the roots of both the Indian Filipe Neri Ferrão and the Pakistani Joseph Coutts, who from this afternoon are participating as electors in the selection of the new pontiff. A sign of the Church of the peripheries, but also of the vitality of a community founded four centuries ago by Portuguese Franciscans. And in these hours, it is also a symbol of the thirst for peace between the two countries now plunged into a new crisis over Kashmir.Read More

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