Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third was the development of brain-scanning technologies, specifically PET (positron emission tomography), which can determine if patterns of neural activity in the brain are present during certain tasks. Using such technology, researchers have found that spatially organized parts of the brain are active in different places depending on the size of objects being viewed...
...Most of the time what happens is that the snakes hide really well, but then they come out for food and that's when they're seen...particularly pet snakes," Rosado said. "When they feed they go into feeding mode and when any thing moves they'll bite...
...moviegoers spent $37.8 million to see the new Jim Carrey comedy, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls--more money than the combined take of Nos. 2 through 20 on the box-office list. Few films have achieved such instant dominance, and certainly none so awful as this sequel, about the pet detective's trip to Africa to find a precious white bat and prevent a war between two backward tribes. Nearly the best one can say of Ace 2 is that it's blithely, ceaselessly racist...
...reason to gloat. Dole has stayed "on message." Among the Doleites, their man is "on message" when he avoids describing the government as "doing a lot of good things," a sentiment the campaign would just as soon have him ditch. "Stayed on message," Dole says afterward, before repeating a pet peeve: "Every time I do that reconnect-the-government-to-values stuff, I feel like a plumber...
...years. The voice is relentless, speaking once every 10 seconds or so. "Don't act stupid," it says in a demeaning tone. "Dirty rotten bastard." Each time the man hears the voice, he clicks a button. Scientists, meanwhile, are monitoring his brain activity. Using a special imaging technique called PET scanning, they take series of pictures every 10 minutes. Later, by matching the timing of the button clicks with the snapshots--744 in all--they get what is, in effect, a photo album of active hallucinations...