Word: circuitousness
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...spreads goodwill rather than violence. And, in a sign of the emergence of user-generated content, Frito-Lay 's Doritos ad, which was both created by a consumer and voted on by consumers in an online contest, also ranked high as a trigger for the brain 's reward circuit. The ads that elicited little response in the ventral striatum, according to the UCLA study, included Robert Goulet 's turn as an office gremlin for Emerald Nuts and Sprint 's commercial for "connectile dysfunction...
...senior center Brian Cusworth, a young member of the Crimson’s frontcourt made the 1,500 fans in attendance at Lavietes Pavilion forget, at least for one game, the loss of the departed seven-footer. In a seeming Ivy League mismatch, pitting the hottest team in the circuit in Cornell, winners of four straight and seven of its last eight, against a Harvard squad that had looked awful in every facet of the game in a 90-70 loss to the Lions, Crimson sophomore forward Evan Harris came up with a performance that turned the tables...
...circuit has also birthed other official rankings and ventures, like Major League Gaming (MLG), which last year raised $35 million in venture capital. "Two years ago, selling pro gaming to cell-phone providers and soft-drink companies was difficult," says Mike Sepso, CEO of MLG. "But 2006 proved it was real. Tens of thousands came to our live events, and hundreds of thousands watched them." While MLG's revenue is growing, profitability is, at least for now, elusive...
...discovered at Sullivan Square in Boston and was destroyed by authorities, officials said. Not long afterward, a report of a suspicious package attached to the underpinnings of the Boston University bridge led investigators to a package containing what was described by one officer as an “electronic circuit board with LED lights attached.” At around 1 p.m. yesterday, calls from concerned citizens began flooding law enforcement offices and several more packages were found, officials said. The packages were found in locations ranging from a comic book store on Harvard Street to the New England Medical...
...loss to Yale. Perhaps the best back-to-back showings of his career in crimson and white provided a fitting capstone to his best collegiate season.Cusworth averaged a career high 17.4 points and 9.1 rebounds a game, the latter figure leading the Ivy League. He currently tops the circuit with 39 blocks, and also established personal bests in field-goal percentage (.515), assists (27), and free throws made and attempted (101-of-139). This season has helped ensure that the fifth-year senior departs Cambridge as one of the leading big men in Harvard history. Cusworth holds the all-time...