Word: connection
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...Even more amazing, the Left is starting to get it. Progressive politics is remembering its own religious history and recovering the language of faith. Democrats are learning to connect issues with values and are now engaging with the faith community. They are running more candidates who have been emboldened to come out of the closet as believers themselves. Meanwhile, many Republicans have had it with the Religious Right. Both sides are asking how to connect faith and values with politics. People know now that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, and we are all learning that religion should...
Residents of Chengdu, glued to the Internet and TV shows like Friends, are striving to connect with the outside world more than ever before, in fashion trends, food and lifestyles. Starbucks is importing its coffee-education strategy to persuade customers to splurge on a cappuccino. (A grande latte in Chengdu costs about $3.30, a huge sum in a city where locals typically earn less than $7 a day.) Starbucks has seven outlets in Chengdu (more than Peoria...
...report also advocates an initiative in “activity-based learning” that would connect academic work with students’ activities outside of class...
Favorite childhood toy: Connect Four...
...Fewer than 20% of the ads, says Dr. Joshua Freedman, one of the neuroscientists involved in the study, triggered nerve activity in the ventral striatum, or the reward and satisfaction areas of the brain - those areas that are known to be involved in making associations and forming connections with people or things. (By comparison, over 50% of last year 's Super Bowl ads activated these regions.) The majority of this year 's commercials, on the other hand, predominantly activated anxiety regions of the brain, centered around the amygdala, the hub of our fear and emotional responses. "To me, that means...