"The moment I met Martin Luther King, Jr., I knew I was in the presence of a holy person.... On the altar in my hermitage in France are images of Buddha and Jesus, and every time I light incense, I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors..
Individual brain networks were reconstructed as follows: first, from the total collection of reconstructed streamlines, those that touched both region i and region j were selected.
Next, for each possible pair of brain regions i and j (i.e., nodes in the network), it was determined whether they were structurally connected by examining whether one or more streamlines from the total collection of reconstructed tracts touched both region i and region j.
We took a left off the seafront and up a passageway so narrow I could touch both walls.
"Now, if I spread my arms out, I don't touch both sides of the hallway," said Gillian Madans, 13, a seventh grader.
My Jewish heritage is mixed — the tight scholastic rationalism of Vilna, in Lithuania, on my father's side, and the ecstatic Hasidic mysticism of Hungary's Carpathian Mountains, on my mother's — and, while praying, I try to touch both traditions.
But I use the term "touch" both literally and metaphorically.
The impossibly tiny cubicle in the Ryokan Asakusa Shigetsu, in Tokyo, where I could reach out and touch both walls at once, and where the bathroom was so compact I had to learn how to shower while sitting on the toilet.
