Word: snaked
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...directed toward reconciling development with environmental protection. Ward Parkinson, the co-founder of Micron Technology, Idaho's largest private employer, thinks long term about educated work forces and quality of life and says that when the state's politicians "decide to protect the salmon on the Snake River, that's when we will know they are serious about developing industry." There may be a convergence of environment and industry coming, but it is still somewhere downstream. --With reporting by Nathan Thornburgh/Seattle
...Chai's place serves up top-notch Dai food?dishes like beef fried with lemongrass, crispy dried sheets of riverweed and grilled snakehead fish with tamarind?as well as all the Thai standards. And if you're game, he'll pour you a generous measure of snake wine from a vat stuffed with coiled serpents and regale you with tales of his adventures...
...reflect the mood of the scene rather than the location. One remarkable panel shows Jean-Christofe's head surrounded by a knot of tubes and two tiny doctors plugging them into his skull. Demons, monsters and ghosts become an integral part of the narrative. Jean-Christofe often has a snake-like creature running around and through his body which twists him up in its coils during his fits. Towards the end, in a fantastic convergence of reality and metaphor, these ghosts become real to the author's mother, who feels haunted by her late father...
What's special about the amygdala is that it can quickly activate just about every system in the body to fight like the devil or run like crazy. It's not designed to be accurate, just fast. If you have ever gone hiking and been startled by a snake that turned out to be a stick, you can thank your amygdala. Joseph LeDoux, a neuroscientist at New York University, calls it "the hub in a wheel of fear...
...having mostly traded in mass storytelling for niche storytelling, has supplemented its limited diet of universally appealing programs like the Oscars and the Super Bowl by creating semireal events like The Bachelor and Survivor. Albums are one-week events: platinum albums are no longer achieved after two hit singles snake their way up Casey Kasem's chart but rather in the very first weeks, through promotion, before beginning their swift, inevitable drop. But no one has figured out how to create a blockbuster that generates a national conversation better than Spider...