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  auras
An aura, according to New Age metaphysics, is a colored outline,
Auras are not to be confused with the aureoles or halos of saints, which are devices of Christian iconography used to depict the radiance of light associated with divine infusion.
Robert Bruce, an aura expert in his own mind, objects to the notion that specific colors have specific meanings.
www.skepdic.com /auras.html   (1819 words)

  
 Mars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mars has only a quarter the surface area of Earth and only 1/10th the mass (though because it lacks oceans the area of Mars's accessible dry land is approximately equal to that of the Earth's dry land).
Mars is much smaller than Earth, but recent research shows that it once had flowing rivers.
Since Mars and the sun appear on opposite sides of the sky, we say that Mars is in "opposition." If Earth and Mars followed perfectly circular orbits, opposition would be as close as the two planets could get.
www.kosmoi.com /Science/Astronomy/Solar/Mars   (841 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Sacks, Oliver Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He began an association with Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in 1965, later becoming a professor of neurology there.
A creative medical thinker, Sacks is known for an approach to medicine that humanizes the patient and is concerned with the psychological, moral, and spiritual elements of illness and treatment.
His books, which include Awakenings (1973), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), and The Island of the Colorblind (1997), describe case histories of people with neurological and perceptual disorders, and exhibit a fascination with the creativity of the human mind as it copes with such disabilities.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sacks.asp   (236 words)

  
 Thierry Nabeth's Virtual Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
His master dissertation (in 1990) in AI was related to the use of constraint propagation in an agent-based architecture for the resolution of a combinatorial problem (in the context of firmware memory allocation problems in a processor).
C-VIBE is an advanced learning system taking advantage of simulation, multimedia, virtual reality, agents/avatars-based, and multi-user, distributed communication technologies to deliver a realistic learning experience addressing the dynamics of change and innovation processes in organizations.
The final goal of the LIP project is the creation of an integrated system of e-learning elements that facilitates to the users a complete contextualisation of the learning process referring to an organisation and its need in real time.
www.insead.edu /~nabeth   (1853 words)

  
 SS > non-fiction reviews
24 Mar 2006 • Philip Ball • The Self-Made Tapestry
Hardy, E. Wright • An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Philippe Kruchten • The Rational Unified Process: an introduction
www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/index.htm   (1228 words)

  
 Shop Index: Medical Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Angry Heart: Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders: An Interactive Self-Help Guide
The Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, & Biologicals
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