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...that the class isn’t their top-choice Lit and Arts A, sit on the ends of the row, effectively blocking out the dozens of seats between them. On more than one occasion this week I’ve had to clumsily tread my way through a maze of crossed legs and fluorescent colored totes. Why am I the one who has to mumble, “Oh, excuse me”? Attention: you should be apologizing...
...German people, was designed by Albert Speer, son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect. Forty kilometers away in Songjiang, barefoot migrant workers are building another massive satellite city, this time a vision of ye olde England with tidy Tudor cottages, cobbled paths, a giant castle and a garden maze. In Pujiang, another Shanghai suburb, 100,000 citizens will soon occupy an Italian dreamscape complete with languid canals. In all, at least 500,000 people are expected to live in Shanghai's seven new satellite towns, each designed in the style of a different Western nation. Zhou Jin, an executive currently...
What McNaughton's recordings have shown is that many of the same neurons that fire during the daytime--say, when a rat is learning to navigate a maze--are reactivated during the REM stage of sleep. "Basically, the brain is reviewing its recently stored data," he says. Eventually the brain consolidates those patterns into permanent connections--or, as neuroscientists like to say, "neurons that fire together, wire together." Interestingly, says McNaughton, that process appears to happen not just during sleep but during restful states throughout the day as well...
...one—short of current Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05—has shown more dedication, determination and expertise in navigating the maze of Harvard’s administrative bureaucracy on behalf of the student body than Matt Glazer. Through relentless—and often thankless—advocacy efforts, Glazer successfully negotiated for the installation of blue-light emergency phones in Cambridge Commons. He managed the monumental feat of convincing the administration to embrace 24-hour Universal Keycard Access in undergraduate Houses—a perennial item on council campaign platforms of years past...
...picked up the skills she uses to navigate D.C.’s political maze while at Harvard, where she dealt daily with argumentative leaders and often played the peacemaker...