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...dendritic connections that help offset some of the normal, age-related loss. The brain is essentially lazy, and when asked to do something over and over, it invariably finds the easiest way. Doing things differently challenges the brain. Brush your teeth with the nondominant hand or take a shower with your eyes closed, and suddenly you're not on automatic pilot...
...article about a proposed fourth meal in The Crimson, I decided that I surrender--no more 9 o'clock classes for upperclassmen," Davis says. "They just can't get themselves together in time to shower, go to the dining hall and get to class...
Online dating also puts a premium on verbal fluency, another bygone romantic skill. The sonneteers competed to shower their ladies with flowery metaphors and witty images; online suitors are also obliged to charm. "The written word promotes people talking about themselves without the self-consciousness of how do I look, how am I dressed," says Andrea Baker, a sociologist at Ohio University. She sees the Internet as a haven for the shy, the tongue tied and the thoughtful. "You have the chance to think about what you say and revise what you say and add to what you say." Also...
...still got along, why should gays have to cower in the closet today? Something about the word open rattles the Army. What is the thinking when the military says that asking and telling will hurt morale? That unless everyone stays in denial, no one will take a shower? One thing that we know hurts morale is forcing people to dissemble about who waits for them at home, whom they vacation with. The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia. Whether gay or straight, sex in the barracks...
...Americans who say they shower or bathe every day during winter...