Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of how the brain region came to be named after a vegetable juice has its roots in over thirty years of research on how the brain processes color...
Cavanagh was one member of a team headed by Nouchine Hadjikhani, a research fellow at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital, that pinpointed the function of the new brain region, which they believe to be responsible for color vision. Their results were published in the July edition of Nature Neuroscience...
...where is Radovan Karadzic? Probably in Serb-held Herzegovina, a barren wedge of land running from eastern Bosnia south toward the Adriatic. "He's here," says Bozidar Vucurevic, formerly of Karadzic's Serb Democratic Party in the region, "And he's defended not by any special troops but by the people." Says a local party member: "It's not easy to make an arrest in Herzegovina. We're not cowards. It wouldn't happen without consequences...
...exaggerated mythology of the Balkans, eastern Herzegovina is the hard heart of Serb nationalism. The inhabitants pride themselves on being as inhospitable to interlopers as the rocky soil is to farming. "We see them as occupiers," a local Serbian Orthodox priest says of the NATO troops in the region. Also convenient for Karadzic is the region's extended, porous border with Serbia and Montenegro that provides ample escape routes in case of a snatch attempt. Most important, the entire region is in the French sector of NATO operations in Bosnia. Statistically, that is the safest place...
...decided to go to school on the opposite side of country from my home in order to experience a new world--to see new sights and taste the atmosphere of a new region. I am happy with my decision--I feel that my time in Cambridge has been and will continue to be the experience that I hoped for. But my time at home this summer has reminded me of what is, in my opinion, one of the happiest truths about our ever smaller world--that even in the most familiar of environments, there is always something new to learn...