Word: activa
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...like that above—in delicate, beautiful, and strangely ambivalent sound. Three songs so much as hint at the “ambient” past of the band’s prior work—”Microcastle,” “Activa,” and “Green Jacket”—but all three are breathlessly quick compared to the hulking, self-consciously difficult pieces on “Cryptograms,” and all three are elevated by lead singer-songwriter Bradford Cox’s newly-discovered...
...Americans who suffer from Parkinson's disease and other disabilities such as essential tremor to eat a meal or write a letter. Implanted on the brain, the Active "pacemaker" helps control the shaking experienced by Parkinson's patients by sending out tiny electric shocks. In a recent study, the Activa reduced shaking so much that 58 percent of essential tremor patients tested were able to write or pour liquids without spilling. Although results were less spectacular for Parkinson's disease patients, Medtronic says that putting its implants on both sides of the brain could produce similar results...
Lehane also chronicles the vita activa of the flea as vaudevillian; the flea as athlete (one "can jump about 150 times its own length along, and about 80 times its length up"); the flea as spreader of plague and, in the case of the male, even as sexual tyrant. In mating, says Lehane, a man obviously sympathetic to the underflea, "he grasps her abdomen with his antennae, and sensuously brushes her parts with a wispy membrane. Then violence comes. Copulation lasts about three hours, sometimes as long as nine. ... So sharp and indelicate are the hooks and spines...
...good of the American public, they are willing to spend their lives pointing out the faults of the genus Americana. These prophets will indicate the way, will lead American to the promised land, will ensconce the American citizen on the throne of learning, culture and refinement. The vita activa finds candidates still...
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