Word: plasticities
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...more encouraging point is that the brain is plastic. It can be trained to respond more appropriately. Less fear makes paralysis less likely. A rat with damage to the amygdala, the primitive part of the brain that handles fear, will not freeze at all - even if it encounters a cat. If we can reduce our own fear even a little bit, we might be able to do better...
...must begin by describing the first time he saw Star Wars ("I was the first kid on my block to see it," "I saw it in utero," etc.). Often the writer's origin story segues into a tragedy of childhood abuse, in which his mint collection of figurines and plastic light sabers is wantonly disposed of by a female relative unaware of its estimated $3.5 million net worth...
...control part of the road between Zeebrugge and battlegroup headquarters -that they depend on helicopter drops for everything from food to entertainment. And when the helicopters don't come, they have to make do with whatever they have. Today they relax, bare-chested, in shorts. They wander around in plastic sandals and listen to the Police and the Eagles. "Hotel California," with its iconic line, "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave," has special meaning for the men waiting to get out on R&R. A promised helicopter ride back to headquarters didn...
...speakers. A parachute, rescued from an airdrop of food supplies and stretched over a frame of scavenged bamboo provides welcome shade in the 42-degree centigrade heat. Perched on a ledge overlooking a curve in the Helmand River, Lance Corporal Glenn McAllister whittles sturdy mugs out of green plastic mortar round cases. If it weren't for the guns, the occasional boom of an outgoing mortar round, and the Taliban forces surrounding Zeebrugge, the setting would almost seem like a beachside bar - without the beer. "All we need now is some sand," muses Collins. "Maybe we should push down...
...result, victims are living anywhere they can. Public spaces of towns in the disaster zone are filled with tents. The Sichuan Ministry of Civil Affairs says it has provided 30,000 tents, but most are living in homemade structures built out of the red, white and blue plastic used for shopping bags in China. In Chengdu, many people sleep under highway overpasses. On the way to Yanmen village, where 10,000 people were left homeless, people have pitched their tents in the road, more afraid of their damaged houses than being hit by cars in the night...