Word: pleasants
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...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...
...weekend before Christmas, and something like a hundred million Americans are heading to a place called home. They still call it that, though they've lived far away for years, and have created new branches of the family they grew up in. This trip into the past may be pleasant or painful. But for most people, whether or not they are practicing Christians, the soundtrack of that wayback machine is Christmas music: the religious and secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with LPs, then cassettes...
Another difference among the frames is in how they handle the photos: Is the transition from one photo to the next smooth or jarring? The Philips and the 8-in. Image Moments from Digital Foci ($230) both handled photos smoothly, with pleasant dissolves from image to image. The Westinghouse ($200) and PanDigital ($180) 8-in. frames, which look suspiciously identical, didn't fare well in either department...