Word: hugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Loker Commons, every young black passerby stops by the booth Ashong occupies to say hello, high-five him, or give him a hug. Ashong has a few white friends, but he is not immune to Harvard's segregated social life...
...situation is urgent, says Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California and eight other Western states. Hug says that with a third of its 28 seats vacant, the court has had to cancel hearings for about 600 cases this year. Criminal cases take precedence by law, so at both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge...
...Senate Budget chairman Pete Domenici of the months of intense negotiations in his Capitol hideaway. "But this was big adult men knowing we had something to do." Before it was over, the can-do spirit in the negotiating room had grown so heady that Kasich, 44, reached over to hug Gene Sperling, Clinton's 38-year-old national economic adviser. "C'mon, Gene!" cried the gung-ho Kasich. "Let's do it for our generation...
Like serotonin (the brain chemical affected by such antidepressants as Prozac), dopamine is a neurotransmitter--a molecule that ferries messages from one neuron within the brain to another. Serotonin is associated with feelings of sadness and well-being, dopamine with pleasure and elation. Dopamine can be elevated by a hug, a kiss, a word of praise or a winning poker hand--as well as by the potent pleasures that come from drugs...
...hour and a billion miles away in the wealthy Main Line, travels to inner-city Philadelphia once a week with seven of her classmates. When their van pulls up to the three-story row house that is headquarters for the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, kids storm out to hug the visitors...