Word: connection
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There are between 150 and 200 hubs on campus, according to Osterberg. The hubs, which can serve from 12 to 200 students, are located in the basements of individual dormitories. Students connect to the hub sites through data jacks located in their rooms...
...tried AOL a few times over the past months and it is really slow to connect to," he says. "When I tried it I had to wait 20 minutes or more just for a connection to do anything...
Steen says the slow rate of the service frustrated him so much that he gave up trying to connect again...
...adult mammals, for example, the axons that connect the brain's visual system arrange themselves in striking layers and columns that reflect the division between the left eye and the right. But these axons start out as scrambled as a bowl of spaghetti, according to Michael Stryker, chairman of the physiology department at the University of California at San Francisco. What sorts out the mess, scientists have established, is neural activity. In a series of experiments viewed as classics by scientists in the field, Berkeley's Shatz chemically blocked neural activity in embryonic cats. The result? The axons that connect...
...inexplicable connect-disconnect of art and life, the name that probably came to mind for most viewers was Theo Huxtable, the only son, who was played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner in Bill Cosby's tremendously popular 1980s sitcom. For more than a decade the Huxtables were America's first family and Bill Cosby was everyone's dad. It was almost natural, however, to confuse real and imagined identities, for Cosby had modeled his television family on his own: a brilliantly accomplished wife, four assertive daughters and one diffident but charming son. The Huxtables were warm, cuddly, comfortable, now and then...