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Word: mirrored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-years, it's the first day in a new environment. It doesn't hurt to check in the mirror one more time to make sure that you didn't get toothpaste on your shirt. Bad hygiene habits might spell the end of a budding friendship in your Ec 10 section...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Analysis: Prada In Paine | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...second game began as a mirror opposite of the first. B.C. got out of the blocks with three quick points. Harvard came back to tie it at four after a series of kills from junior setter Julie Yick, junior middle hitter Katherine Hart and Denniston...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Avenges Early-Season B.C. Loss | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...patients with Huntington's disease, it's the part of the brain called the basal ganglia that's destroyed. While these victims have perfectly intact explicit memory systems, they can't learn new motor skills. An Alzheimer's patient can learn to draw in a mirror but can't remember doing it; a Huntington's patient can't do it but can remember trying to learn. Yet another region of the brain, an almond-size knot of neural tissue known as the amygdala, seems to be crucial in forming and triggering the recall of a special subclass of memories that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Genes? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...remarkable experiment performed in 1962 by Canadian psychologist Brenda Milner proved that H.M. can form new memories of a very specific sort. For many days running, she asked him to trace a design while looking in a mirror. As far as H.M. knew, the task was a brand-new one each time he confronted it. Yet as the days wore on, his performance improved. Some part of his brain was retaining a memory of an earlier practice session, a so-called implicit--rather than explicit, or consciously remembered--memory. People who suffer from Alzheimer's disease exhibit the same sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Genes? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Hell 2, you sing a song called Objects in the Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are. Could you sing a song called Caution: Filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meat Loaf | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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