Word: scans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit organization devoted to highlighting the importance of the first three years of life, is that modern neuroscience is providing the hard, quantifiable evidence that was missing earlier. "Because you can see the results under a microscope or in a PET scan," he observes, "it's become that much more convincing...
...Talk about a headache. Using PET-scan imaging, researchers find that a CONCUSSION can cause cell damage that persists for several months in an area of the brain related to cognitive functioning. Patients, while not usually severely disabled, are often left with problems in performing difficult tasks...
...kind of person who's slightly obsessive about my favorite artists. I scan newspapers, magazines and whatever else I can get my hands on for even the most esoteric scraps of information. Stanley Kubrick is tossing around the idea of moving back to the United States? Eddie Vedder got a new cat? Even though I keep my ear to the ground, I have the peculiar habit of going into bookstore and record stores for the sole purpose of scanning the titles of my favorite artists and authors. Even when I know damn well that a new work isn't coming...
...Harvard student, a great deal in this novel is familiar. Ladd captures the essence of the self-absorbed groping college life in key passages such as: "The apartment that we called 'home' was a place to store books and papers, share an occasional meal, play chess, scan the newspapers, watch television, make love in haste and detachment, then fitfully fall asleep." This idea of college as a place to rest while stuck in transit between childhood and adulthood certainly strikes a strong cord among students...
Tourists can be as much a curiosity to us as we are to them; always try to determine what language the tour is in, watch for interesting license plates and scan the group for the newest innovations in video technology. Harvard Yard, and the University in general, are beautiful places to visit, and there is definitely enough room for Harvard's historic importance to share space with the needs of its students. I really would like to answer the tourists' questions assuming I wasn't running to a section or carrying my laundry...