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While mapping with the help of electronic stimulation has pinpointed some parts of the brain primarily responsible for controlling individual parts of the body as small as the tongue, fingers, or even eyelids, there is evidence of much overlap and feedback. Speech obviously demands control of movements of different parts of the mouth-but not until after the speaker has decided what words he wants to say. So both motor control and intellectual processes are involved...
...visitation this year, when the last-they remember distinctly-was only nine years ago in 1953. That was Brood X. To complicate things further, there are Southern branches of the cicada family that appear every 13 years, and in some unfortunate areas, the 17-and the 13-year tribes overlap, sometimes hit exactly the same hatching years...
THERE is only one significant political party in Tanganyika: the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU). In constitutional democracies of the West power structure is a horizontal spectrum of interests which overlap and conflict--rural and urban groups, business and labor, Republican and Democrat, numerous subdivisions. The decision making process is legislative, work- ing by compromise and accommodation of various interests, with certain common agreements as to the lengths that any majority coalition of interests can go in forcing its will on the minority...
Some, he found, do not adequately report either income or expenditures of local chapters. Some allow their locals to join community-chest or united-fund drives, while others forbid it. About 100 national and regional agencies overlap with 2,200 united-fund drives that divvy up the take among 28,500 agencies...
...programs calling for University undergraduates to work in Africa have been proposed in the last several weeks. The programs, whose goals overlap slightly, have frequently been confused by students interested in joining...