Word: hamster
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...This is the paradox of our post-9/11 "reprioritizing": America - credit-addicted, 25-brands-of-toothpaste-on-the-shelf America - cannot afford for us to examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver? We needed to believe that civilian, commuter-consumer life is heroic. And Flight 93--a weekday flight carrying largely...
...anyone who's ever had a pet knows, the joke's on us: animals - with the exception of all poodles and the occasional sissy hamster - are not absolutely controllable. We do maintain sway over cats and dogs, primarily because their social hierarchy allows us humans to neatly insert ourselves in the dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little...
...centre,'" he demands by way of greeting. Meanwhile his girlfriend, the head of ad sales at the paper, impatiently waits for him to move out of his dad's house and into hers. Against a fascinating glimpse of how a small town paper runs - like choosing between a lost hamster story or a merchant's ad for the cover - we see Owen become more and more conflicted about the direction of his life. Meanwhile Katharine struggles with her long-distance boyfriend. With his subtle approach and care for character, Watson smartly avoids the pitfalls of turning SND into a broad...
Harvard Yard had some new additions this weekend: a forest of tree stumps, a surreal playground and a giant hamster wheel, among others. In the first-ever Yard installation of student art, “‘Place and Site’: A Sculptural Exploration of Harvard Yard” consists of artwork created by students of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) under the guidance of VES professors Patrick Strzelec and Jackie Brookner...
...circadian factors found by the HMS researchers were identified in a hamster. The findings are strengthened by a separate study that shows that mice with deficient quantities of the receptor do not have normal circadian patterns...