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...first thing I noticed when a buddy—my “bodyguard”—and I walked into Om was a silky sheet of water flowing down the reception wall. My friend touched it, and expressed amazement at the consistent flow of the yellow-lit ripples. He’s a math concentrator.The second thing I noticed was the publicist. Welcoming us with the cheer of a Mercedes dealer, she told us to enjoy the food, drink and décor and asked me if I thought this was what “the kids?...
...particular kind of depression.” Ardayfio and his advisor, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Kwang-Soo Kim, tested three groups of mice on a standard anxiety-level test. The mice were placed in a darkened chamber, allowed to acclimatize themselves, and were then allowed to explore another brightly lit chamber. Ardayfio and Kim found that, while normal mice readily explored the new area, mice which had received long-term doses of the rodent equivalent of cortisol via drinking water were reluctant to explore and exhibited symptoms that the researchers characterized as anxiety. Anxiety in mice placed in this experimental...
...Thrasher” by N.E.R.D. “I liked that album a lot more a year ago than I do now.” 5. “I Found a New Baby” by Benny Goodman “I took Lit and Arts B (The Swing Era) and the only good thing I took away from it was the music...
...takes something more than wish-fulfillment and a funny premise, however, to win so much attention. Like “Mean Girls,” “Opal Mehta” is chick lit mixed with satire. Rather than Queen Bees/Wannabes, however, Opal Mehta represents what might be called the Pre-Organization Kid, the protozoan phase of the sociological type first dutifully reduced to caricature by David Brooks in 2001. “The Organization Kid,” he wrote, is fatally “goal-oriented...
According to Gould-Wartofsky, it was the passage in December of the bill, House Resolution 4437, that “was the spark that lit the match.” Though a similar bill has yet to pass the Senate, Herndon and Gould-Wartofsky said that the issue was not dead...