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...doing a routine task stimulates it to make new dendritic connections that help offset some of the normal, age-related loss. The brain is essentially lazy, and when asked to do something over and over, it invariably finds the easiest way. Doing things differently challenges the brain. Brush your teeth with the nondominant hand or take a shower with your eyes closed, and suddenly you're not on automatic pilot...
...pictures are sanitized also because they stray so far afield from brush strokes or film grain or even Adobe Photoshop. When we think of image manipulation we still tend to assume some explicit mark of the artist, some tweak here or there, or some sense of humor. The tweaks here are twice removed from what you see, written into the software blueprint, and the only trace of process is a faintly superimposed, bending grid...
Designed by Will Wright, creator of the best-selling SimCity game series (SimWorld, SimAnt, SimTower), The Sims allows me to dictate every aspect of my characters' lives: where they build their house, whom they live with, how nice they are, how often they brush their teeth. I decide when they eat, where they work and whom they love. Like elaborate humanoid Tamagotchis, the Sims' needs (like food, hygiene, comfort and fun) pop up on a little control panel on the bottom of the screen. Ignore the warning signs, and you'd better be prepared for trouble. "They're like human...
...gained notoriety on campus in October for claiming mob connections and offering students the chance to buy fake New York State driver's licenses for $80 a pop. Many students refused to speak on the record about their brush with organized crime. Whether it was out of fear of reprisals from the mafia or from the Ad Board, students were keeping mum--in either case it's possible that students could end up in the Annenberg meat cooler...
...Musical numbers about the expulsion from Eden and time on the ark are bound at the very least to promote a bemused audience, and the cast does an admirable job with a show that lacks a cohesive theatrical intent. And so a trip to the Loeb Ex for a brush with the biblical is highly recommended. It should at least serve as a more entertaining form of pre-exam prayer...