Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senators were originally scheduled to vote on Alito’s nomination next week, but Democrats said yesterday that they would slow Alito’s rise to the court by delaying a full Senate vote for one week...
...stereotype. Indeed, until quite recently most researchers believed the human brain followed a fairly predictable developmental arc. It started out protean, gained shape and intellectual muscle as it matured, and reached its peak of power and nimbleness by age 40. After that, the brain began a slow decline, clouding up little by little until, by age 60 or 70, it had lost much of its ability to retain new information and was fumbling with what it had. But that was all right because late-life crankiness had by then made us largely resistant to new ideas anyway...
...disappointed in our last 20 minutes, but I like where we’re headed,” Harvard coach Katey Stone. “We hurt ourselves tonight by not controlling some situations that we usually control. We were just a step slow tonight—hesitant in certain situations.” But UNH seemed like it had more energy and was more ready to take over the game on its home ice, which is unusually large for the college level. “On a big sheet of ice, the puck has to do the work...
...Merchant, who passed away in 2004, “The White Countess” does not quite measure up to their past sweeping classics (“Surviving Picasso” or “Howards End”). Fortunately, extraordinary acting makes up for rather drab dialogue and slow-paced action. “Countess” is a true Merchant-Ivory collaboration. As with most Merchant-Ivory films, a stellar cast is paired with a lush backdrop of elegant costumes and scenery. Taking place in 1930s Shanghai, “Countess” is a fitting...
...Buddhist monks, the subjects were Boston-area workers practicing a Western-style of meditation called mindfulness or insight meditation. "We showed for the first time that you don't have to do it all day for similar results," says Lazar. What's more, her research suggests that meditation may slow the natural thinning of that section of the cortex that occurs with...