Word: shut
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...examples are seemingly endless: the new pub in Loker Commons, the creation of the Lamont Library Café, the renovation of the Mather and Dunster dining halls, and the creation of a new dance center when the old one was shut down. All of these major student life initiatives were on the brink of doom or significant delay because of the whim of one person—the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...told us a lot about the dreaming-or at least the REM-brain. Those areas that are active include the brain stem (responsible for basic functions like heartbeat regulation), the limbic system (which mediates emotions, learning and memory) and parts of the forebrain involved in processing sensory information. Shut down, meanwhile, are the bits responsible for the most sophisticated mental processes, such as logical and ordered thought. It's a profile that fits neatly with the subjective experience of dreaming: vivid images, strong emotion and snippets of memory, but a shortage of coherence. Rather like a David Lynch film...
...keeping us asleep and undertaking the necessary repairs is by tricking us, through dreams, into thinking we're up and about and pursuing our desires. It's the neurological equivalent of putting on a DVD for the kids so the main players in the house can get some shut-eye. "Dreams replace the real actions that are instigated by our motivational impulses while we're awake," Solms says. His hunch is that the non-dreamers in his study will wake up more often during the night than the dreamers, especially during REM sleep: "The dream," he says, "is what keeps...
...tallies. Junior Melissa Mueller added four goals, while junior captain Lauren Snyder, freshman Roxanne Pinto and her classmate Kelley Peeler all had two. Junior Melissa MeCreery added one. “We capitalized with a bunch of turnovers up top,” Snyder said. “We shut them down so they didn’t have that much to go to.” Despite a dominant attack that made for a relatively quiet night for sophomore Nicola Perlman, the goalie was still able to reject seven shots while stripping the ball from the Camel?...
...store for a shootout had Bruton not stymied Columbia’s offensive momentum. After the Lions tied the game at 4-4 in the fourth, Bruton replaced freshman Eric Eadington. Bruton slammed the door with 3 2/3 dominant innings of one-hit ball. “He shut them down completely and didn’t give them a chance at all to come back in that game,” Vance said. “We could have used him in the second game. We wish we had another Jake Bruton out there...