Word: motor
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...that serotonin deficits can give rise to very different illnesses, depending on what part of the brain is affected. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, probably arises in the striatum, a part of the brain that controls voluntary movements. Princeton's Jacobs believes that, based on experiments with cats, repetitive motor activity--walking, chewing, breathing--stimulates the release of serotonin, which improves mood. That might explain why people are soothed by gum chewing and why obsessive-compulsives perform such ritualistic acts as hand washing over and over; they may simply be self-medicating to overcome a serotonin deficit...
...working to try and make things safer...not to punish cyclists," Sugrue said, citing a fatal August 5 accident involving a bicyclist and a motor vehicle near Porter Square...
...reduce the divorce rate, we need to curb the marriage rate [SOCIETY, Aug. 18]. Instead of making divorce harder to get, we should make marriage much more difficult. It should be as tightly controlled and regulated by government as owning and operating a motor vehicle. It should involve rigorous training and licensing, and even more severe restrictions if a couple intends to procreate. Divorce and child-support insurance should be required. Some may think government ought to stay out of our private lives. But the social cost of divorce is comparable to, or perhaps much greater than, reckless driving. MANUEL...
...experts say that Paul could have been drunk enough to stagger and have blurred vision. At the moment of the crash, he had to contend with driving an unwieldy, armored Mercedes at speeds more than triple the posted 30 mph limit ? all the while being pursued by paparazzi on motor scooters. When the car entered the 660-ft. tunnel on the Place de l'Alma, investigators say, it struck the concrete divider that separates the eastbound lanes from the westbound and apparently cartwheeled, overturning, then spinning nearly 180 degrees. Fayed and Paul were killed instantly; the car's horn wailed...
...like past ones, the immense desert flats will be teeming with offbeat stunts, weird art, flamboyant performances and bizarre, gasoline-powered contraptions. When we pulled up to Burning Man for the first time several years ago, we were greeted by a fat guy riding a large, furry rabbit motor scooter. He sat behind the ears. Across the desert we could see a truck hauling a mattress behind it, stirring up a huge, blinding vortex of dust. Three passengers in gas masks were reclining on the mattress, waving insanely...