Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students take the following classes during their first year: civil procedure, criminal law, contracts, property, and torts. First-year students at Harvard also take an elective in the spring. Most classes last one semester, but some professors prefer to stretch their classes out over the entire year...
...when it is subjected to intense pain. Say, for example, you're on your way to work when a runaway car jumps the curb and crushes your left leg. First, your mangled limb lets loose a flood of chemicals, called prostaglandins, that trigger swelling and activate the nerves that stretch from leg to spine. As soon as the nerve signals reach the spinal column, another group of nerves takes over and passes the message on to the brain. It is only after the brain gets in on the act that you can "feel" your own pain...
...time, I was a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego. I was deeply immersed in questions of brain organization and development. And I was gay. So it wasn't a big stretch to put these two parts of my life together: to ask whether this particular aspect of human diversity, so central to my own sense of identity and my place in society, could be understood in terms of neurons, synapses and genes...
...stretch of Harvard-owned property along South Street--across from the Kirkland House annex--would be a likely candidate if the College decides to construct new housing...
...Midriffs," the Grammy-winning singer once explained helpfully, "make me look taller." She found in designer Marc Bouwer the perfect architect of her no-foundation-garments- necessary look. Bouwer describes his style as "athletic glamour" and uses lots of Lycra and other stretch fabrics in his evening wear. At this week's fashion shows in New York, the relatively unknown Bouwer has scored a coup by persuading the singer, whom he has been dressing ever since he saw her on TV wearing a frock of his that she bought in a store (horrors!), to strut the catwalk...