Word: exception
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...Such alertness may not seem like a bad thing, except that in a second paper in the same issue of Science, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin found that sleep appears to function as a critical shutoff valve for the fruit-fly brain. After a period of sleep, the volume of connections between nerve cells in the brain decreased, a condition that Tononi theorizes offsets the wakeful brain's activity. During waking hours, the brain keeps adding new information about its environment, forming new circuits and new connections in an ever thickening neural network. But even the fruit...
...would’ve bolted right then. Except Ezekiel said, just as I tried to get away, “I hope it’s a nice time, Miss Winnie.”Something about it—about that patient face of his—made me so mad. Mad in the way you get when someone elbows you in the eye but says it’s an accident. It wasn’t anyone’s fault that that stray brick had messed up Ezekiel’s ear. But that didn?...
...down by the Obama Administration, "but it is far too early to say that there is any struggle to get there." Translation: the version of Brüno shown to the MPAA was like an out-of-town tryout for a Broadway show or a novel's first draft - except that the script doctors, or editors, are outside agents with the power to tell Baron Cohen what he can leave in and what...
...Once the profit motive comes into play, "it's difficult to keep things pure," says George Churinoff, a monk at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wis., who was involved with Intentional Chocolate in its early stages. "Then [the product] may not be blessed in any way with motivation except maybe to make money...
Testing In-season testing is out, except during scheduled practice sessions on Formula One's 17 race weekends...