Word: personation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard freshman Ravi Kumar was the first person to come off the courts, capturing a 6-2, 6-4 decision over Ryan Wenger, while Harvard's Mark Leschly defeated Brian Kalbas in straight sets. 6-3. 7-6. giving the netmen a 2-0 lead...
Harvard Professor of Psychiatry J. Allan Hobson believes that the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep stage, during which a person's eyes move quickly back and forth, is the most energetic phase of our sleeping unconsciousness. During that period, the body restores its metabolic order through the process of dreaming, which is now believed to be responsibile for more than just expressing our Freudian desires, according to Hobson...
...researchers found that there were drastic chemical differences between a sleeping and a waking brain. When a person is not asleep, one of the two groups of neurons in Hobson's model, called aminergic neurons, processes the hormones norepinephrine and seretonin, which can control bodily functions. On the other hand, if someone is engaged in REM sleep, the other set of neurons, referred to as cholinergic, become receptive to the hormone acetylcholine for muscle control...
...wasn't the same person I got involved with two years before," Jones said. "She became a lot less animated--really withdrawn...
...Captain Diana Edge received the Betty Ritchie Award, an honor symbolic of an all-around outstanding person in the world of women's inter-collegiate squash. Edge was selected by the nation's coaches and team captains...