Word: objectional
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...Mench, professor of animal science at UC Davis, notes, “Chickens show sophisticated social behavior… They can recognize more than a hundred other chickens and remember them.” Dr. Chris Evans of Macquarie University adds that chickens can understand that a hidden object continues to exist—a comprehension beyond the ability of small children...
...situation involves making choices.”The delay has compelled the University to plan to relocate stem cell researchers originally bound for Allston to a Cambridge facility currently occupied by faculty members in the MCB department—a move that has triggered backlash from professors who object to the administration’s apparent prioritization of stem cell research at the expense of their own discipline.‘NETHERLAND’Harvard’s stem cell researchers, who are dispersed across Boston, have long envisioned a unified research space in Allston, a dream that University Provost...
...match this Mach 2 ride through alternative history. Nor is the movie likely to live up to the hype it and its source novel have generated. Derisive laughter was heard at a critics' screening, and a Hollywood Reporter review predicted that the film--budgeted at $100 million and the object of a rights wrangle between Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox--would be the "first real flop of 2009." (TIME's Lev Grossman offers a fan's review of the movie. Download the podcast...
...blue ice, glint-white, brown”—paying attention to every creature that comes along and enjoys the scene with her: turtles, a Dalmatian, and a pigeon. Lepson boldly declares: “I love this town.”The sea also figures as an object of love throughout the collection. In “Separation,” a nostalgic description of a failed marriage addressed to the narrator’s partner, Lepson ruminates on the intimacy of swimming as “the first thing in months that felt like...
...ugly, but it's true: when a Washington power player looks set to fall, the capital drools. So Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner found himself the object of intense interest when he went before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify on Tuesday. It was his first major public appearance since his less than inspiring rollout on Feb. 10 of a half-baked plan to save banks that left Washington and Wall Street whispering that Geithner, 47, wasn't ready for prime time...