Word: felted
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...neurons fired up. The researchers then scratched the paralyzed, itchy legs with a metal device that mimics the sensation of monkey fingers and found that the firing rate in the neurons dropped rapidly. That sudden drop-off in firing is the neurological equivalent of the relief felt after a good scratch, indicating that scratching seemed to calm the nerves and therefore relieve the itch. The findings supported the researchers' initial hunch that the itch sensation was not located along the skin of the monkeys' legs where histamine had been injected and that relief did not occur where the metal claw...
...politely asking at cocktail parties how the arbitrage formula worked, and being politely rebuffed, it was made very clear by Chais that he was managing things - or his "New York people" were, "his brokers." Yeah, we bought it; he was getting older, in his 80s, and we all felt he had perfected the formula, whatever that was, and that "his people" were well trained...
...think that when I went up a break in the third set, then I felt a little bit of breathing room, but not much,” said Clayton. “It was a stressful match, there’s no doubt about that...
...drive them to absurd, unhealthful behavior as a matter of course. One student I know put himself through the gauntlet of a 14-hour-per-day summer lab job pipetting in the hopes of snagging a future Harvard Medical School admissions letter; another suffered an existential crisis because he felt that none of his extracurriculars were sufficiently frivolous enough to show employers he could have fun. The anxiety runs deep—next Wednesday, the Office of Career Services will attempt to soothe those whose goals have been dashed with a panel entitled “Reflections on Rejections...
...year-old staff assistant at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. “Given my age, I would probably be one of the early ones to be laid off.”Despite the stated voluntary nature of the retirement program, Kaufman said he would have felt subtly threatened by the possibility of layoffs had he not accepted the package.“I have more years ahead of me to work,” Kaufman said. “Obviously, I wouldn’t choose to retire if I knew my position is secure...