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"As John Brown, a 19th-century Scottish physician, put it, "Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language." And while only patients can describe their symptoms, many body signs can be detected by patients, physicians, partners, and even passersby. Body signs are detected by using the five senses; they can be seen, heard, tasted, felt, or smelled. WHAT CAN OUR BODY SIGNS TELL US? Before modern diagnostic techniques, doctors had to rely on what their own and their patients' five senses revealed to them." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"She first used foreign language broadcasts for background noise but then switched to white noise, using old-fashioned valve radios. Having received answers to her questions both on tape and directly through the radio, she became convinced of the authenticity of the phenomenon and the need for its further study. She established an international publication, The ITC Journal, that carries research reports in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Her own communicators spoke mostly Portuguese, with occasional communications in German, Spanish, and English, all languages in which Dr. Cardoso was fluent." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Genuine community utilizes stories—rather than "the foreign language of studies and reports"—to maintain its culture. And in genuine community there is meaningful celebration as well as common heartfelt grief over loss, suffering, and tragedy. Many professionals and institutions, McKnight observes, actually preempt and destroy genuine community: "Human service professionals with special expertise, techniques, and technology push out the problem-solving knowledge and action of friend, neighbor, citizen, and association." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Problems arise when synapses lie dormant: The less you use certain connections, the greater chance they have of falling into disrepair (like losing fluency in a foreign language if you don't use it for a long time). Technically, we actually learn by weakening underutilized synapses and repairing and strengthening the synapses we commonly use. So if you cook a lot and enjoy it, you'll eventually know the recipes by heart—and learn them faster because it's enjoyable. You build a large connecting wire, which allows for the faster flow of information." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"An accountant, for instance, probably wouldn't benefit as much from learning calculus as from studying a foreign language, while a person who already knows two languages would not benefit as much from studying a third one as he/she would from, say, learning to play bridge. Challenge: Motivating yourself to learn something new. Choose a skill that you'll enjoy using once you learn it. If you learn a language, plan a trip to a country where it's spoken. If you learn bridge, join a bridge club where you can meet new people. •Play challenging games." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"She wrote of the mystifying double life of chemicals in the just slightly imperfect English that can humble any of us who have tried to actually write in a foreign language. "These brominated flame retardants they found in my blood, they are sneaky," she wrote. "They have been created to protect us from accidental blazes of domestic appliances and furniture. Actually, they are bio-accumulative, and they can provoke behavioral changes, they are endocrine disrupters. A high percentage of nonstick perfluorinated chemicals were also found in my and my mother's blood. Where can you find them?" - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Early results showed that Suggestopedic students could absorb anywhere from 60 to 500 words of a foreign language per day. The Soviet-Bloc press was soon boasting that Suggestopedic learners could routinely master foreign languages in a single month.23-24 Many U.S. researchers dismissed these claims as Communist propaganda. However, researchers at Iowa State University soon succeeded in increasing memory retention in test subjects by 26 percent and speed of learning by 24 percent using 60-beat-per-minute Baroque music." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"I came for AIT in the hope of improving my ability to learn a foreign language. I am pleased to say that everything I had hoped for concerning my ability to learn another language was achieved. My auditory memory/learning ability has also increased. Not only can I repeat longer phrases in French, but I can remember a phone number when someone says it! Also, my vocabulary is less 'visually dependent'. In a conversation I now 'hear what you mean' instead of only 'seeing what you mean'. "Also, lam remarkably more comfortable with other people." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"At the end of the day, the gathering spectre of ideological oppression and global hegemony can only be challenged by people with a deter- 2 My Microsoft spell check does not recognise this word and thinks it is in a foreign language. mination to build strong communities. Personal, everyday problems in the community should be the building blocks of democracy; they are, in effect, the reason for democracy. In this sense, the destruction of an individual life through adverse reactions to a pharmaceutical is at least as important as, if not more so than, the external threat of terrorism." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Studying history is a little like learning a foreign language; until you really get the hang of it, there are likely to be some misunderstandings. They come, as you might expect, in the compound tenses and subtle, subjunctive moods. The casual reader understands the major verbs, but misses the veiled meaning. He is like a Hudson River hustler trying to do business in Hyderabad—or a man trying to reason with his wife. The words will be deceptively familiar; but he'll miss the sense of the conversation completely." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"One can even ask whether social enhancements like learning the violin or mastering a foreign language are any less permanent than a few inches of height. While it is true that biomedical enhancements may be more difficult to reverse than social enhancements (and this would be true for such minor modifications as tattoos as well), most are not of the permanent variety (although the inherent risks and sequelae might persist). It is likely that if genetic enhancements were available, permanence might be much more of an issue." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Here are two examples: • A businessman who was studying a foreign language to help in his dealings with overseas clients provided himself Total Involvement by (1) dining in ethnic restaurants where the language was spoken, (2) shopping in stores catering to people who spoke that language, and (3) listening to shortwave broadcasts. He particularly benefitted from Voice of America newscasts in the foreign language because they are usually delivered at a slow pace that is easier to understand." - Scott Witt, How to Be Twice as Smart: Boosting Your Brainpower and Unleashing the Miracles of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Languages: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna,Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English (major foreign language taught in schools). Government Government type: federal republic. Capital: Addis Ababa. Independence: oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world—at least 2,000 years. National holiday: National Day (defeat of MENGIS-TU regime), 28 May (1991). Economy G.D.P.: purchasing power parity?50.6 billion (2002 est.). G.D.P.—per capita: purchasing power parity?750 (2002 est.). Currency: birr(ETB)." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Will the book teach you to use your new computer, explore a favorite hobby in greater depth, speak a foreign language, or gain insight into a current social issue? Determine in advance exactly how you expect to be made more capable or better informed by reading the material. ?What level of detail do I want? Do you need to learn and remember every fact in the book, the major points of each chapter, or just one or two key facts or techniques? Decide in advance. ?How much time am I willing to commit right now to achieving my purpose?" - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "But you can learn a foreign language, read a book, or absorb higher math at hundreds of times that rate. The trick, Shichida discovered, is to feed the data into your brain too fast for your conscious mind to follow it.10 The Feedback Factor When a train rolls slowly out of a station and another train rolls into the station on an adjoining track at an equally slow speed, a passenger sitting at the window of the first train will have the impression that the two trains are rushing past each other at twice their actual speed. In fact, the trains' high speed is no mere illusion." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"Every white man was a priest, or a soldier or a landowner and they all shouted orders in a foreign language or through interpreters and (soon) through people of mixed race. But Amerindians went on dying. This was a puzzle to the Spaniards, who had thought that Amerindians had only died because of God's wrath against the Religion of the Sun. A generation later, most Amerindians had been converted to Roman Catholicism, but they were still dying in large numbers. This was very odd, and against all conventional wisdom, Catholic or Inca, European or Amerindian." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) "Slaves frequently spoke only a foreign language, and were strangers from capture to death. The revolt of Spartacus (73-70 b.C.), which shook the Roman Republic to its foundations, made the telationship between mastets and slaves much mote severe; so did the sale of huge numbets of slaves by triumphant generals such as Crassus and Julius Caesat. At one time during the reign of Augustus, the slave population may have outnumbered that of free persons. It is fashionable to atgue that Roman ctuelty existed, in all its obscenity, long before slavery became essential to the Imperial economy." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"Languages: Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language. Government Government type: parliamentary democracy. Capital: Jerusalem; note—Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv. Independence: 14 May 1948 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration). National holiday: Independence Day, 14 May (1948); note—Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948, but the Jewish calendar is lunar and the holiday may occur in April or May." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"It is as if they are struggling to interpret and respond to a foreign language. Imagine your genes as American tourists trying to follow travel directions in Greek, and it might be somewhat comical. But there is nothing funny when genes misunderstand chemical messages and their reactions then set the stage for chronic disease. Excess Carbohydrates Alter Gene Function The significant difference between past and present eating habits becomes clear in a simple comparison." - Jack Challem, Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging (Get the book.)

"Awards for Best Cinematography and for Best foreign language Film are shown in a separate table. Awards for actors and directors are named for films winning Best Picture except where otherwise indicated." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Any American who can stumble through a conversation in a foreign language is regarded with awe. As our desks at work pile high with unread trade journals, computer manuals, reports, magazines, and books of all kinds, few of us can escape a sinking feeling of dejd vu. In the workplace, as in school, we feel ourselves swamped with a mass of data far too large for our memories to hold. METASKILLS On an occasion when Einstein was asked the speed of sound, he replied, "I don't know. I don't crowd my memory with facts that I can easily find in an encyclopedia." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

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