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...pathways in laboratory animals. He explains that the jumpiest part of the brain--of mouse and man--is the amygdala, a primitive, almond-shaped clump of tissue that sits just above the brainstem. When you spot potential danger--a stick in the grass that may be a snake, a shadow around a corner that could be a mugger--it's the amygdala that reacts the most dramatically, triggering the fight-or-flight reaction that pumps adrenaline and other hormones into your bloodstream...
...Harvard’s third and final drive of the quarter also started in the shadow of the Crimson’s own end zone, causing Murphy to cite the field position as a key to the game’s outcome...
...Tanner is a central agent of Labor's policy renewal. But he's not as well known in the arena as those from the Molotov faction: incendiaries Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, Julia Gillard and Stephen Smith. Once described as the Shadow Minister for the Medium Term, Tanner likens himself to a ship's engineer: out of sight, always working, covered in grease. Part of his role in Labor's strategy group is to cost proposed election promises and find existing programs that can be cut. As well, Tanner and others have stripped out those parts of the a.l.p. platform that...
...short time, it seemed that the Black Keys were doomed to live in the shadow of the White Stripes. They were just another blues-rock duo from the industrial belly of the country—even the groups’ names were strangely similar. Since about 2005, however, the Keys have come into their own; as their show last Thursday at Boston’s Avalon proved, the two boys from Akron, Ohio deserve all the praise they’ve garnered on their own terms. While Jack and Meg White are lauded for pushing musical their boundaries, the Black...
Gupta places the black men that occupy his frames in a realm between shadow and light, neither relegating them to the darkness nor allowing them to fully emerge from obscurity...