Word: exerts
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This malleability could, in a roundabout way, produce clones who are indeed soul mates. Your clone would, after all, look like you. And certain kinds of faces and physiques lead to certain kinds of experiences that exert certain effects on the mind. Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs--physically robust, psychologically assertive--and ectomorphs--skinny, nervous, shy. But even if these generalizations hold some water, it needn't mean that ectomorphs have genes for shyness. It may just mean that skinny people get pushed around on the junior-high...
...viewer with an open box containing two iron bars, one straight and one curved. The title of the work tells us they are "To be Bent with the Eyes." Beneath the bars, a graph paper background adds pseudo-scientific validity to the notion that over time our vision will exert some kind of material force on the art object. Here Meireles makes us his collaborator, and we can only wonder how many viewers it will take until the bars curl completely and break through their...
...structure of the clubs is such that members are able to exert considerable control over female guests: Women are dependent upon male members for admittance (often through side doors), and once women are inside, their movement is regulated--they are confined to the rooms members deem them fit to enter. It is no wonder that such a controlling environment gives club members confidence to make the kinds of overtures that would be seen elsewhere as inappropriate; Epps is right to advise women that the best way to avoid uncomfortable sexually-charged situations at club events is simply not to attend...
Clinton and his new team--a competent, bland bunch of centrists--don't want to stake the success of the second term on perilous negotiations with Congress. The lesson of the still unfolding Gingrich scandal, White House aides say, is how much control members of the G.O.P. leadership still exert over the rank and file. In an intensely partisan atmosphere, collecting votes from G.O.P. moderates is going to be tough for Clinton. So he is choosing to forge ahead with the strategy that worked so well for him last year. Its essence: avoid grand legislative schemes and bypass Congress altogether...
Although Jones is handling only 70 breast-implant cases, his opinion is expected to exert considerable influence on other judges who are grappling with similar suits brought by thousands of women. One reason: Jones took the unusual step of appointing four independent experts to assess the purported link between the rupture of silicone implants and specific physical complaints. These experts--an immunologist, an immunologist/toxicologist, a rheumatologist and a polymer chemist--arrived at the same conclusion reached by many others, including Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine: localized problems, notably the painful hardening of breast...