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...locales become hot spots-and stay that way: "We believe there is a reinforcing, recursive mechanism that makes particular places the center of social activity, which may be linked to the broader notion of "place in product," whereby particular goods wish to be linked with particular places in order to attain greater value or buzz...
...Since PET picks up glucose-burning activity in cells, hot spots on PET scans of cancer patients generally indicate actively growing tumors. But after doing biopsies, doctors found that hot spots in the neck of most of their patients weren't cancerous at all. These turned out to be brown-fat deposits...
...backseat, Michael J. Scalise ’10 sits with knees high and head looming close to the roof of the car. He replenishes an earthen gourd of mate—a caffeinated drink prepared with the dried leaves of a South American holly—with hot water from a thermos. Unlike Nick, who has a dark, leathery complexion, Scalise is of a lighter cast, his wispy blonde hair framing a bright-eyed face that jerks about when addressed. He passes the gourd to Pablo Botero ’09, and like some religious victual, the pungent beverage slowly...
...intimacy that is lacking in lacrosse or any other sport that has a tool—it’s just a piece of wood, it’s just a piece of graphite,” Cissie says. “The horses are warm-blooded, hot-breathing masses of flesh and blood that are here because they love their jobs...
...comes to define the sport as a whole. The feelings that come while you’re on top of that horse are layered—and they compound, Scalise says. The thrill of being taken from one end of the field to another in seconds, the feeling of hot horse skin underneath white jeans, the vulnerability of depending on another living thing besides oneself—in the end, losing doesn’t really seem to matter all that much, and it would be difficult to not see other players as one comrades...