Word: minding
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...daily existence is largely influenced by our ability "to understand our societal interactions, to understand someone else's emotional state of mind, to understand the expression on their face," says Ninad Gujar, a senior research scientist at Walker's lab and lead author of the study, which was recently submitted for publication. "These are the most fundamental processes guiding our personal and professional lives...
...also saves lives - sometimes in spite of the efforts of doctors, who, in Nurse Jackie, are at worst arrogant and obtuse, at best brilliant but detached. Her best friend, surgeon Eleanor O'Hara (Eve Best), lays out the differences in their mind-sets: Jackie, she says, became a nurse because she wanted to help people. "When I was a little girl," Eleanor says, "I took a butter knife and opened up a dead bunny to see how it worked. That's why I'm a doctor...
Will Ferrell, in the screen persona he's perfected over a healthy six-year box-office run, takes the boy's-mind-in-a-man's-body transference a smart step further. In such hits as Old School, Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, he plays overage children who try to act like adults, with their steely intonations and take-charge attitude. His usual character is the kind of fellow who learned how real men behave by watching Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford movies - Hollywood, not life, has been his teacher, and he's not such a quick study...
Ross wanted to target that economic vulnerability. "If you're really going to concentrate the Iranian mind to what they stand to lose, they're going to have to see that the economic price goes up dramatically from where it is right now," he explained. But to make sanctions work, countries like Germany, China and Russia would have to join in an economic crackdown. To get those countries on board, Ross wrote last year, "there may be value in enlisting Israel to send a high-level delegation privately to European capitals to make the point that while others feel they...
...think the Abrahamic God would make up his mind - Can he live with other gods or not? What's with the random mood fluctuations...