Word: somewhat
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...both cases, Americans blamed other countries for problems they created themselves. In the late 1980s, Akio Morita, Sony's flamboyant co-founder, was one of the most outspoken about Japan's economic conflicts with America. He argued that all of the bickering about currency rates and corporate practices were somewhat irrelevant. The U.S. trade deficit, he wrote at the time, was "a result of commercial transactions based on preferences." Translation: Americans simply wanted to buy lots of things from Japan. The problem was that "American politicians fail to understand this simple fact...
...hippocampus is shrinking, the pathway between it and the prefrontal cortex also begins to degrade. Signals peter out and fade away, and questions take their place: Do I know you? Who am I? But it's not just with Alzheimer's: the hippocampus also goes at least somewhat awry in normal memory loss. "It's relatively stable in volume till about 60," Harvard neuroscientist Randy Buckner explains, "and then begins to change. People with Alzheimer's disease, though--they slide off the cliff...
...does an astonishing job conveying the sense of malaise that affects our lives, his book, at times, feels like little more than a compilation of the author’s best clips. Though they show that Samuels can write almost everything about almost anything, the book’s somewhat haphazard construction obscures his message about how we can live the good life—or, at least, how it is that we’re failing...
...condition of the oldest child, Kerstin, demonstrates the physical insults of a life so confined. Ravaged by an unidentified infection, she is currently in a medically induced coma. There have been reports that, despite her youth, many of her teeth are missing. Stefan has fared somewhat better, although his skin, like that of his siblings, is ghostly pale. Life in a warren of narrow corridors and low ceilings has damaged the spatial orientation of Stefan and Felix, and there may be more serious consequences for all three: health experts say a chronic lack of sunlight and exercise can leave children...
...roflculture,” fostering new genres, new celebrities, and a new type of audience. While the meme remains based in the ridiculous that often becomes popular by chance, the LOLomenon has seemingly elevated it to the status of a new—albeit somewhat accidentally created—genre. Online, the new culture is “doing a billion things all at the same time,” according J.D. Connor ’92, a former Crimson editor. And yes, the popular bits culled from the billion often turn out to be as ridiculous as two minutes...