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Once again, students point us towards the animal’s alleged hide-out. Once again, we take their word for it. But—once again—the turkey is nowhere to be found. We do come across some cute rabbits, but unless a clump of them had somehow been mistaken for a turkey, the elusive bird is Harvard’s Loch Ness Monster—a myth and a mystery...
...Festival for The Mourning Forest, which celebrates man's mystical relationship with nature. "Because of the circumstances of my childhood, I never fell in love with the West, like many other Japanese did," says Kawase, 39. "My inspiration comes from our traditional culture, in which everything, even a little clump of grass, is divine...
...Clinton and her top staff already were aboard the campaign's jet when their Blackberry phones lit up. Fox News was calling Texas for Clinton. The aides cheered. Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe poured cheap Yellow Tail wine into long-stemmed glasses, and they stood in a clump in the aisle and made a quick toast...
...sidewalk is infamous for its inability to comfortably accommodate two people walking abreast. Add a four-foot circle around each person and you have an impassable wall of nylon and steel. In the rain, stepping over the curb becomes an impossibility, and phalanxes of overstressed and rushed Harvard students clump up on sidewalks, knotted up by umbrellas. Cambridge’s Puritan planners simply didn’t have umbrellas in mind when they were laying out the cobblestones, but we insist on jamming the streets with them anyhow...
...hits, and studies of the brain with functional magnetic resonance imagers (fMRIs) show why it feels so good. The earliest fMRIs of brains in love were taken in 2000, and they revealed that the sensation of romance is processed in three areas. The first is the ventral tegmental, a clump of tissue in the brain's lower regions, which is the body's central refinery for dopamine. Dopamine does a lot of jobs, but the thing we notice most is that it regulates reward. When you win a hand of poker, it's a dopamine jolt that's responsible...