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...from the vending machine, and soon no one could focus on the work at hand. At first the requests were tentative, the carton-shaking uninspired. But soon we ate communally, each warming the mushy lozenges as we reached deeper in, stretching the mouth of the box wider, happy to mush one in pursuit of a happy handful...
...remain active outside of work by taking up such stimulating activities as painting, gardening or playing a musical instrument are three times less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as they age than their more intellectually passive peers. I always suspected that the box would turn my mind to mush, and here's the proof...
While most Harvard students spent Spring Break in sunny locales, coaxing their brains to slowly excrete the putrescent academic mush they had been cramming the previous week, the men's volleyball team was hard at work...
...snazzy murders and a cooler-than-Ice score (by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan), Ghost Dog runs a serious risk of being its director's first hit. That would be nice, because this is his most compelling film and because it's still profoundly weird, a typical Jar-mush of genre bending and ethnic blending, a grafting of European modernism and Japanese mysticism onto an American gangster movie. Caught in this crossfire of the contemplative and the violent, the viewer is kept as off-guard as most of the killers in the film...
Second, when that time does come, the principal beneficiaries will be the newly injured. People long injured--who've developed scar tissue at the site of the break and whose distal spinal cord (the part below the injury) often turns to mush as the old neurons die--will be the last people to be helped by this research, if they'll be helped at all. The "cure" will probably end up like the polio vaccine: preventing paralysis, not abolishing...