Word: phenomenons
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Binge drinking is not a new phenomenon on American college campuses. The presence of the Sheriff of Middlesex County at the head of the academic processions in Harvard Yard was traced by President Neil L. Rudenstine to the need to control drunk and disorderly behavior at graduations in colonial times. The tradition of heavy alcohol use by college students is part of the history of most institutions. Listen to almost any college song, and you are bound to hear about young men hoisting their beer mugs in tribute to their alma mater. Colleges have had a long-term affair with...
...mail message yesterday, Lewis said he and the Masters noticed that most large blocking groups are not entirely comprised of close friends--in particular, "the 'hinged' blocked phenomenon" in which one large blocking group is comprised of two sub-groups that are linked by a few common friends...
...even as psychologists and brain researchers have learned to appreciate memory's central role in our mental lives, they have come to realize that memory is not a single phenomenon. "We do not have a memory system in the brain," says James McGaugh, director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine. "We have memory systems, each playing a different role...
These are just some of the major divisions. Within the category of implicit (a.k.a. nondeclarative) memory, for example, lie the subcategories of associative memory--the phenomenon that famously led Pavlov's dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, which they had learned to associate with food--and of habituation, in which we unconsciously file away unchanging features of the environment so we can pay closer attention to what's new and different upon encountering a new experience...
...means, however, is the dynastic impulse a purely American phenomenon. In Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri led her party to victory in the recent elections. She came out of nowhere. She has no political experience. And her political views are almost unknown. No matter--she is the daughter of Sukarno, founder of the Indonesian state...