Word: raisining
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Peanut and raisin rewards have become the coins of Goldman-Rakic's realm. In a series of elegant experiments that combine memory tests with electrical recordings from brain tissue, she has learned, for example, that each part of the brain has its own short-term "scratch pad" in the frontal lobe. Within each of these areas, individual neurons are responsible for holding and processing highly specific pieces of information, like the memory of a particular face or voice...
...bread without getting sick of its discolored brown and grainy consistency reminds me of how thankful I should be for the bread basket in Cabot, which is itself notoriously understocked. I now treasure the opportunity during the school year when I could choose between an English muffin and cinnamon raisin bread without having to buy entire packages of each...
...kind of wide-eyed wonder--has given his story and his characters happy endings. We would like to do the same here, and so we return to the real Pennie Lane. "I'm putting it together now," she says. "It's gonna be a retirement home called the Raisin Ranch for aging rock stars and wayward groupies. We're all gonna be deaf because we didn't wear earplugs. So where are we gonna go? I'm on it." She needn't worry. Thanks to Almost Famous, Lane--and the music she loved--will live forever in their prime...
...almost complete obscurity. But for better or worse, those days are over, and now the views of the vice presidential candidates' wives are subject to intense scrutiny and public discussion - and we're not just talking about a rousing debate on the merits of chocolate chip versus oatmeal raisin...
...each other, and by February they were engaged. Rudin moved from Seattle to Fresno, Calif., found a job as an auto mechanic, and last June he married Christensen, a customer-service rep with an agricultural company. The newlyweds completed their rural idyll by settling down on a 30-acre raisin farm. "If you had told me that I would wind up meeting my great love this way," says Rudin, "I would have said you were crazy...