Word: statically
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...that the brain can, in fact, be actively rewired. "For years there's been hope that you can retrain the brain," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. As our understanding of the brain becomes more sophisticated, Gorman explains, we get further from the erroneous idea that the brain is static, or fixed. "Now we know that tasks like learning a language or playing a new instrument change the brain," Gorman says. And although the stroke therapy remains experimental, it offers renewed hope for even more dramatic and practical discoveries down the road...
Richard noted that one benefit of distance learning technologies is a reexamination of learning and teaching methods in colleges, which have remained static and unchallenged for the last 30 or 40 years...
...England would be somewhat overstating the point. The problem that Picasso's original seating design highlights is not an absence of creative talent in the Harvard theater scene. Rather, it highlights an absence of exposure. Like almost any activity at any university, undergraduate theater at Harvard has a fairly static collection of adherents. The same set of people see most of the shows on campus-and they are the same set of people who help produce (or are close friends with those who help produce) most of the other shows on campus. In a small theater like the Ex (which...
...list of "official" sponsors of terrorism remains static - Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Sudan - although in many cases "qualifying" for the list (and the harsh sanctions that come with it) is somewhat of a stretch. "North Korea may have a couple of old-time Japanese Red Army terrorists from the '70s still kicking around there, but it's not considered an active sponsor of terrorism," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "But the U.S. is actively using North Korea's presence on that list as a bargaining chip in negotiations to get Pyongyang to back off on proliferating...
...mood, created by character and environmental detail, that counts. In one scene David talks with Wanda's sister at a patio table, and the wind carries the paper cups with their drinks into the bushes. It's a small, perfect detail. It adds a kinetic element to a static scene and foreshadows what the future may have in store for these two characters...