Word: affectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Authored by a Cambridge landlord, Question 9--the statewide referendum that ended rent control--squeaked by with a 51-percent majority. But voters in the three affected communities overwhelmingly opposed the initiative.
Thomas Doran, who served on the Rota until he was made Bishop of Rockford, Ill., understands both sides. American Catholics live "with a divorce mentality," he says, and are bound to be affected by it. But they are also subject to Catholic canon law, which has always strictly carried out...
Nor, however, is it a wholly unnatural one. Clearly, there is bound to be some difference between adherents of these two disciplines; one can hardly expect that students' interest in computer science as opposed to English literature will have no effect on them and will not, in turn, be affected...
Like serotonin (the brain chemical affected by such antidepressants as Prozac), dopamine is a neurotransmitter--a molecule that ferries messages from one neuron within the brain to another. Serotonin is associated with feelings of sadness and well-being, dopamine with pleasure and elation. Dopamine can be elevated by a hug...
This gave scientists a target on which to focus their research. They began scanning that part of the brain with MRI technology, which uses subtle magnetic changes to capture the internal structure of organs in exquisite detail. To their surprise, they discovered that there was on average 39% to 48...