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...delayed, my kids' doctor rings a couple of days after a visit to see how his patient is doing, and the staff in a couple of hotels have been so skilful and gracious that I was barely aware of all they were doing to make my day more pleasant. Good experience or bad, though, they never fail to ask me to rate their performance...
...books, in first grade, provided a pleasant initiation into idiomatic English. Who knew, for example, that “drawing the curtains” didn’t involve a pencil and a sketchbook? Or that dressing the turkey—unlike dressing the dog—didn’t call for a sweater and a pair of argyle socks? Read in college, on the other hand, Amelia Bedelia looks less like an amusing language lesson than a perfect modern parable for the restrictive role that language plays in socioeconomic class mobility, particularly among immigrant populations...
...with recommendations made by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE), which released its final report in December. While the committee expected a favorable reception from President Derek C. Bok and the deans, the considerable financial support for the early stages of the initiative came as a pleasant surprise, according to Lyman Professor of Biology Andrew A. Biewener, who is the chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of UPCSE.The Harvard Corporation’s enthusiasm in following UPSCE’s recommendations and willingness to devote $50 million to their implementation?...
...were in the fMRI machine, presented them with pictures of 80 products, each followed by a price. Subjects then had the option of purchasing each item on display. As they viewed products they preferred, Knutson saw activity in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain involved in anticipating pleasant outcomes. If, on the other hand, the subjects thought the price of these items was too high, there was increased activity in the insula-- an area involved in anticipating pain. "The idea is that if you can look into people's brains right before they make certain decisions...
...does it feel to be part of the E.U.? It is a very pleasant feeling. To be European is not something that is self-evident. One has to gain one's place in the European family...