Word: reflexive
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Once on stage, Knobler described the experience as "very surreal." "When you're up there, everything just becomes a reflex...it is quite a weird feeling," Knobler said...
...basically became a test of psychological reflex to the light," Knobler said...
OLYM-POKE GOLD A heated exhibition of skill, reflex and endurance will begin in Sydney next week. No, not the Olympics. It's the first Pokemon World Championship. In case you're clueless--or past age 14--here's how it works: players "train" six creatures on their Nintendo Game Boys, upload them to virtual stadiums and they bludgeon one another into comas. U.S. hopes rest on national champ Ian Garvey, 13, from New Hope...
SOME NERVE New hope for sufferers of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a confounding neurological disorder that affects 6 million Americans. RSD starts with a minor injury to an arm or leg--say, a twisted ankle or a bruise--but quickly blossoms into a strange syndrome in which the sympathetic nerves (the ones responsible for temperature control, sweating and blood flow) go so out of whack that blowing air across the skin is enough to trigger burning pain. The injured extremity and surrounding tissue can become discolored and, eventually, immobile. Now researchers report two experimental treatments. In one, doctors restore motor activity...
...fighting spirit that served the McCain men so well in combat may not, in contrast, hold its value in politics. McCain writes about a reflex that all three men shared--scrawny kids who moved around a lot, all were quick to pick a fight at the smallest provocation to prove they were tough. All three were rebels with or without a cause, and there are those who have worked with McCain who have come to view him as genetically combative, quick on the draw, as if all the fun in life comes at being forever at war with someone...