Word: dormant
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...long time, says Leshner, the addictive brain has been permanently primed for relapse. One common trigger for returning to drugs is stress, which can send the recovering addict back to a proven stress reliever. Another is contact with people, places and things associated with drugs--cues that bring up dormant memory circuits laid down during active addiction and thus reawaken craving...
Female celebrities do yoga. Male celebrities paint. These are the rules; don't ask us why. They are so rigorous, however, that even relatively dormant celebs like MATTHEW MODINE must follow them, as we learned last week when several of the Full Metal Jacket star's paintings, believed to have been stolen more than a decade ago, were discovered in a New York City apartment. An N.Y.P.D. detective noticed a painting of Modine with Birdy co-star Nicolas Cage in a Chinatown apartment. After climbing a fire escape to get a closer look, he obtained a search warrant. Seven Modine...
Just 30 miles inland, conditions aren't quite so pleasant. The sunset is every bit as gorgeous from here, at the summit of the long-dormant volcano Mauna Kea, but temperatures hover around 38[degrees]F, with a windchill that dips well below freezing. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft., the atmosphere carries barely half the oxygen it does at sea level, so the slightest exertion can leave visitors gasping. Those who travel to the summit without getting properly acclimated risk altitude sickness and even death...
Harvard's offense--dormant throughout the second half--certainly had the momentum in the last drive. Instead of capitalizing on the momentum Rose established down the stretch, Murphy told him to kneel the ball, use the final timeout and set up for the game-winning field goal attempt...
...Holyoke Center, John Bonaparte '81, a.k.a. "Bonapart the Magician" performed. On Garden Street, there was an inflatable carnival where kids climbed the rock pillar and bounced around in the Moon Walk while at the Strong Man Hammer Swing their middle-aged fathers rolled up their sleeves and flexed long-dormant muscles...