Word: center
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delighted with Marjorie Decker's strong performance," said Jarrett T. Barrios '90, one of Cambridge's state representatives, at "The Count" at the Cambridge Senior Center...
Many Cantabrigians taking in the excitement at the Senior Center said they were disappointed with the low voter turnout...
Before the announcement of the unofficial results at 10 p.m., over 100 citizens, police officers, political pundits and election officials crowded the Senior Center in anticipation, just as they have done every two years...
...high school biology textbook offered an illustration: if an electrode is attached to the pleasure center of a rat's brain and the rat is given access to a lever that causes a discharge to the electrode, the animal will pull down on the lever again and again and again until it dies from hunger and exhaustion. No animal has the human capacity for self-control. But then, sadly, neither does any other animal have our gift for rationalization...
...help keep them healthy. According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, elderly people who encounter positive images and feedback about aging may actually function better than those who encounter negative stereotypes. Experiments conducted at Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston yielded results that further the theory that physical health is very much affected by a person's state of mind. In part of the study, two groups of elderly people were asked to walk down a long hallway, and their gait and speed were measured. Then, each participant played...