Word: distantly
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...long bulls that appear to float across the massive vaults like religious apparitions. An enigmatic spotted beast with a round snout and straight, forward-pointing horns, plump horses in brilliant yellow and deer with treelike antlers - all seem in equal part intimates of the present and missives from some distant world. Which they are. Though the draftsmanship is strikingly Modernist - on exiting the cave in 1940, Pablo Picasso said, "We have invented nothing" - these creatures were painted and inscribed on the limestone walls during the Upper Paleolithic age, when everyone was a hunter-gatherer, and Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthal...
Harvard pediatric neurologist Dr. Martha Herbert reported last year that the excess white matter in autistic brains has a specific distribution: local areas tend to be overconnected, while links between more distant regions of the brain are weak. The brain's right and left hemispheres are also poorly connected. It's as if there are too many competing local services but no long distance...
...results, comparing last year’s eighth place out of 48 colleges to this year’s seventh out of 87. “We were pleased to see that we beat Yale, and quite convincingly,” he said. The Bulldogs placed a distant 38th in that category. The only other Ivy League school in the top 20 for per capita recycling was Princeton, at number nine. First place went to Oregon State University with 91.35 pounds, almost double Harvard’s total. But in the waste minimization category Harvard was swept to the bottom...
...into more often. Not being assigned an upperclass House as a first year may dilute the excitement of being a Dunster resident, but it gives students the opportunity to make connections with members of their class that they otherwise wouldn’t. But too often these connections become distant memories after freshman year, only to return during senior spring. Ultimately, the campus will only be responsive to a measured dose of events like Yardfest, but we hope the social programming board will broaden its scope beyond this handful of signature events to promote class and College unity in other...
Some of the very same tools which allowed airliners.net or Wikipedia to grow to unheard of proportions keep us closer to our families and distant friends than we’ve ever been before. If we choose, we can be a part of the day-to-day lives of even those who live hundreds or thousands of miles away. Connections that used to require letters or phone calls can now be maintained through Facebook photo albums or profile checking in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. These social networks, in some sense our social networks, are changing just...