Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarterly reported that only 48.8 percent of all eligible voters participated in the recent presidential election, the lowest percentage since 1924. But participation is not the only problem: even those individuals who vote regularly have had a hard time keeping track of the issues and seeing through the political spin...
Instead, Seabrook (a New Yorker writer and scion of the Seabrook frozen-food family) keeps his feet firmly planted in a very personal and often very funny account of his own assimilation into the culture of the Net. Sure, his head may spin a bit as he makes his initial encounters--his first E-mail exchange finds him in surprisingly casual conversation with Bill Gates; he samples the mysteries of cybersex disguised as a half-woman, half-faun named Bambi. But a little head spinning is to be expected at first, and Seabrook is never more on target than when...
Attempting to put a positive spin on the decision, Associate Dean of Freshmen in Residence Lorraine Sterritt argued, "These students will be as close if not closer [to the Yard] than those living in the Union dorms." But past expansion cannot justify another round of housing sprawl, let alone one that will land a dorm between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delhi Darbar restaurant. And even if Hurlbut, Pennypacker and Greenough no longer have the Union, at least they have each other...
...value on the social trappings of a high-end marriage: the A-list party invitations and the good table at Spago. Given what awaits a 53-year-old divorce in Stamford who may be lucky to be invited to a potluck supper with Scrabble, Gary Wendt's decision to spin off Lorna after 31 years should get her half and then some...
...problems the growing nervous system must solve, the most daunting is posed by the wiring itself. After birth, when the number of connections explodes, each of the brain's billions of neurons will forge links to thousands of others. First they must spin out a web of wirelike fibers known as axons (which transmit signals) and dendrites (which receive them). The objective is to form a synapse, the gap-like structure over which the axon of one neuron beams a signal to the dendrites of another. Before this can happen, axons and dendrites must almost touch. And while the short...