Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, infants as young as two weeks were confronted with a cube (or sometimes only the shadow of a cube) that began moving slowly toward them. When it seemed about to hit them, they showed what psychologists call "a strong avoidance-reaction pattern." They turned aside and squirmed and tried to avoid being struck, though they had no previous experience that would make them think that the approaching object would hit them. When such a cube or its shadow approached the babies on an angled path that would miss them, however, the babies followed...
...that was before the South Street Seaport opened with a bash of festivities, celebrities and rush-hour crowds. In the shadow of the 100-year-old Brooklyn Bridge, the festival market now offers a trove of cultural attractions in a handsome historical resetting. A new Fulton Market is its centerpiece. Built of brick and granite with a hipped metal roof and wide-open entrances, the new market is just that: a bold, shirtsleeves kind of place for honest food without cellophane and a variety of eateries for all tastes and pocketbooks-some 40 establishments...
...Missouri's skeptical show-me spirit accounts for the caliber of such men as Harry Truman, Clark Clifford and Stuart Symington. Residents of New Jersey have never registered much interest in local government, mainly because most of the state's population lives under the professional and cultural shadow of New York City. By contrast, Louisiana politics, wrote A.J. Liebling, "is of an intensity and complexity that are matched . . .only in the Republic of Lebanon...
...showcase of Japanese science is a sprawling 70,000-acre complex 37 miles northeast of Tokyo called Tsukuba Science City. Nestled amid pine groves and rice paddies in the shadow of 2,874-ft. Mount Tsukuba are 50 government and private research centers and an affiliated university. Founded in 1963 as part of a national "seeds for the future" effort in science and technology, Tsukuba Science City now has an annual government budget of $600 million and a staff of 7,000 scientists, engineers and technicians. Their investigations extend from high-energy physics (using a 12 billion electron volt accelerator...
...strong corporate culture is the lengthened shadow of Thomas Watson Sr., a charismatic executive who joined the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp. in 1914, renamed it International Business Machines in 1924, and ran it until a month before his death in 1956. Watson was a visionary who believed above all in his company...