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...spokesperson for Queen Elizabeth II on the loss of the queen's pet flamingos to a fox. Only six of the birds were actually killed by the fox, but the seventh bird died of shock...
...screenplay form. There was a lot of the sour old writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since, on the evidence of the film, no one heard Kane's dying word, so no one could search for its meaning...
...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...
Specifically, participants in the study engaged in various visually-based activities while a PET machine scanned their brains. Unlike other studies in Sweden and France, where spontaneous visualization of individuals was not taken into account, the Harvard researchers took careful steps to include this effect in their data. As a control, they scanned the brains of subjects told to rest with their eyes closed in a dark room...
...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...