Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real terms, Rudenstine has barely begun to make his imprint on Harvard as an institution. He has chosen a new dean for the Kennedy School, but for now, he's still getting to know Harvard, something Wilkinson calls "a big assignment in itself...
...elevated levels of testosterone, among other hormones, during their embryonic development. On average, they play with the same toys as the boys in the same ways and just as often. Could it be that the high levels of testosterone present in their bodies before birth have left a permanent imprint on their brains, affecting their later behavior? Or did their parents, knowing of their disorder, somehow subtly influence their choices? If the first explanation is true and biology determines the choice, Hines wonders, "Why would you evolve to want to play with a truck...
...read an adult book. So, what you're seeing [on screen] is something you can barely understand. I mean, it's very hard for a kid to understand the sexual and other kinds of politics that go on in an adult film. I think that leaves a deep imprint on you and only later when you see this film does [it] become clear how the experience was originally overwhelming...
...either case, his personal imprint on the age will remain. Gorbachev is above all a source of inspiration for the defenders of liberty, of change without bloodshed, of trial and error, and thus of people who try to unlock the hitherto closed doors into an open future...
...womb is the first home. Thereafter, home is the soil you come from and recognize, what you knew before uprooted: creatures carry an imprint of home, a stamp -- the infinitely subtle distinctiveness of temperature and smell and weather and noises and people, the intonations of the familiar. Each home is an unrepeatable configuration; it has personality, its own emanation, its spirit of place. Nature's refugees, like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms...