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...finished up the conversation with eyes lit up and an insistence that he had to make it to more games this year...
...total amount of time employees work. They pack in 40 hours by starting earlier and staying later four days a week. But on that fifth (glorious) day, they don't have to commute, and their offices don't need to be heated, cooled or lit...
...researchers then put eight subjects with healthy amygdalae into a functional magnetic-resonance-imaging device. They found that the amygdalae in those individuals lit up when the participants were told that an experimenter was standing close to them, even if the participants couldn't actually see, hear, smell or in any way sense the experimenter. In short, that suggests that we are wired to repel close human contact - except, of course, when sex is a possibility. Which explains why so many introductions in bars go wrong. One party's amygdalae gets primed by proximity even as the other party...
...Winthrop C-33 as an upperclassman, according to Will C. Quinn ’10, a current Winthrop resident who met the senator while interning on Capitol Hill.“I told him that I had voted for him, and he was happy about that, but he really lit up when I mentioned that I lived in Winthrop House,” Quinn said.Kennedy was a noted right end on the football team during his college career, scoring the only Harvard touchdown in the Harvard-Yale Game his senior year. He turned down recruiting interest from the Green...
...Arlington, the pallbearers gave Jackie the flag from the coffin, which she embraced as if it were a small child. Then she took a taper and lit the flame at the foot of the grave - an "eternal light." Bobby and Teddy Kennedy touched taper to flame too. Then they turned to go, and the funeral was over...