Word: distantly
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...turn of the 20th century, the landmarks that now define Harvard were still a distant reality. Where the Harvard Kennedy School is now, a railroad yard stood. The land that would later host Eliot and Winthrop Houses were occupied by an unsightly mixture of power plants, coal yards, and store houses. The present-day iconic buildings, including Widener, Lamont Library, and the Science Center had yet to be built...
...Once again, Sancha was astonished at the great sense shown by her master, whose words inspired even those in distant lands who had not witnessed his deeds. Directing their animals southward, the two turned toward their beloved Casa Blanca, prepared to embark on whatever new adventures awaited them...
...retrieved; like a librarian, it scans the brain's catalog of bygone information and brings appropriate material to the fore. (But a recent brain-scan study of 15 healthy adults at the University of California, San Diego, found that the hippocampus has less to do with memories from the distant past. It is vital to the recall of recent events, from a year or two ago, but when study participants were asked to recall memories five or 10 years old, scientists recorded less activity in the hippocampus and more in the cerebral cortex...
...Alzheimer's Society's Montgomery-Smith thinks singing sessions may work similarly, by dredging up distant memories associated with the music and stimulating memory-retrieval mechanisms in the brain. But many other Alzheimer's activists warn that putting too much hope in claims of so-called "hidden cognitive rehabilitation" will only distract from the urgent need to find a cure. "There are so many things that you can't overcome with Alzheimer's - we can't get too excited by these low-tech treatments. They can help patient care but they will never deliver a solution," says Susanne Sorensen, head...
...definition of capitalism is somewhat unorthodox: the system that allows poorer people to have the comforts only rich people once had. In the not-so-distant future, parents will be able to buy their children an education produced under the same competitive stresses that gave us cheap LCD televisions, the iPhone, Lipitor, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Block-heads paint the public schools as a sacred cow, vouchers as undemocratic, and unionized public school teachers as modern heroes. Were trains so holy that today there are no planes? Was cotton so consecrated that we lack polyester? Likewise, the monopoly local middle...