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...last few months was all fast-tracking since Harvard needed that building,” said Ray Mellone, who chairs the mayor-appointed task force of Allston residents. “But now that we have time to think about the new phase, we have the opportunity to shape the community...
...Scientists already knew that similar to the way a fingertip moves across a surface, the 50 or so hairs on a rat's cheek vibrate against an object to perceive its shape and texture. The video technology revealed the fluid micromotions of the whiskers, which send signals to the brain where they're interpreted as a sensory experience. What's more, the scientists were also able to study how different kinds of whiskers transmit different kinds of sensations. Short hairs, which are located on the front of the snout, transmit higher frequencies and vibrate fastest, while longer whiskers, which...
...native of Augusta, ME, Rollins spent her summer training with some of her teammates in Cambridge. They played four nights a week and worked hard in the gym to get into shape...
...team was an unbelievably successful season,” Rollins said. “But for me personally, I had a very frustrating season. I wasn’t playing the way I wanted to play. I didn’t come back to school in the kind of shape I needed...
...Marion is in relatively good shape-compared with Mansfield, a town the governor and I visited earlier that morning. Strickland is a former minister, and we began our day at the United Methodist Church, a lovely place with a guitar-playing preacher. Back in the 1960s, Mansfield had been home to famous American brand names like Westinghouse and Tappan. Now the town was shriveling slowly, the young people moving away. "I'm the only one I know who went to a four-year college and came back home to live," Ben Stauffer, a young high school teacher, told me later...