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That's the simple version of the story. In practice, things are a bit more complicated. To start with, different neurons specialize in releasing different neurotransmitters. Many carry messages that convey facts about the outside world--incoming sounds, patterns of light and so on--and integrate them into useful information. Some neurotransmitters also carry messages of action, telling muscles when to release or contract...
...cooperative, despite his desperate need to produce negotiating results. He has usually been the more movable party, forced to make concessions as the inferior power in the partnership. But these days he's drawing his own red lines, refusing both to come down hard on the Islamists and to convey to his people that violence is not an option. Nor do the Palestinians feel any confidence that they stand a chance with the pro-Israel Clinton Administration...
...that all the time? Only the Unabomber would seriously suggest that we cut all ties to the wired world. The computer and its spreading networks convey status and bring opportunity. They empower us. They allow an information economy to thrive and grow. They make life easier. Hence the dilemma...
...Moss as Eve, Kennedy sits bare-chested and bare-kneed in dark shadow, gazing pensively at an apple. In the editor's letter, he ruminates on the nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal the snakes in his Garden. Instead, he breaks the Kennedy-clan mantra of loyalty no matter what the crime by observing that cousin Joseph, who tried to annul his first marriage, and cousin Michael, who dallied with the baby-sitter, had become...
...zeal to convey the importance of the games, Herz occasionally loses her edge and blindly defends them against all criticism. Her responses to the bimboesque portrayal of women and the questionable values that the gorier games convey to children, for example, feel as shallow as an Aqua-Fresh smile (a Herzian saying). The games' shameless pandering to adolescent fantasies is explained with little more than a breezy "what teenage boys want, teenage boys get," while growing parental concern is briskly dismissed as "adults freaking out about their precious darlings being driven to new heights of deviancy by popular media...