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...caves faced a narrow valley that twisted its way through mountain ridges that seem to overlap as they rise toward the White Mountains. As Tuesday afternoon waned and it was clear that the Al Qaeda fighters had accepted the cease-fire, the area took the appearance of an archeological dig. Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck. One fighter handed me a rubber jug with a strap. "Al Qaeda," he said with a nod. Arabs...
...possible overlap of signals from different ORs is surprising because it implies that a single neuron in the brain could be stimulated by more than one type of receptor in the nose...
...experiments, a single receptor in the nose stimulated about 2 to 5 percent of the neurons in the olfactory cortex. The researchers had expected only about 0.1 percent of the neurons to be stimulated if the signals from receptors did not overlap...
...overlap may help the brain distinguish different smells...
...teams are even closer than that. Under the tutelage of a shared coaching staff headed by Harvard Coach Satinder Bajwa, the two teams’ practices often overlap. They even study yoga together to improve team unity as well as the players’ balance and mental focus. Even off the court, the teams are close—as part of the same blocking group, both men’s captains and both women’s captains live in the same entryway. It seems fitting, then, that both are essentially locks to be chasing national titles this season...