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...tearing down the industrial buildings, the city refurbished and repurposed them as play barns and picnic sheds. But while the Gas Works Park includes a big rusted factory, the surrounding greenery doesn't much engage the thing, which stands more or less on its own on a grassy plain...
This is an oversimplification, of course. Other neurotransmitters, and even plain glucose--the sugar the brain uses for energy--may also play a part. And then there's the peculiar case of a woman who contacted McGaugh because she remembers absolutely everything. The stress-hormone model does not appear to apply in her case. Says McGaugh: "At one point I asked if she knew who Bing Crosby was. She's 40, so Bing Crosby doesn't loom large in her life, but she knew he died on a golf course in Spain, and she gave me the date, just like...
...could go to a slightly hipper style without being funky. Let me see your watch. What kind is it?" A Citizen. "It's an O.K. watch, but if you want to move it up a notch, you have to move up your watch a notch." My carrying case, admittedly plain, needs to go. Get a Coach bag, she advises. I need to upgrade my pen too: a Cross or a Montblanc would be nice...
...supplier of materials to the lingerie factories. One Kuwaiti woman, browsing in Hamra Street, says, "I come here because it's so cheap and you can find whatever you want." Well, perhaps not always. "I can't find what I want," protests a Syrian woman. "I just want plain cotton underwear, and I have to buy it from women who bring it back from Europe...
...investments do not necessarily signify a moral lapse. The HMC maintains no direct control over the Barclay’s holdings, which, like those of any mutual fund, change over time in response to market fluctuations. However, the University’s financial gurus cannot ignore what is in plain sight. Now that it is clear to Harvard and the world that a sizable portion of Harvard’s endowment is supporting the actions of Sinopec and PetroChina, the HMC should find a way to dispose of the shares...