Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When your eye sees an object, the image is first processed by your retina, then by a lower brain area, and then by the cerebral cortex. The image first goes to the least specialized region of the cortex, known as V1. As information is subject to more processing, it goes to higher and more specialized areas of the visual cortex designated as V2, V3 and so forth...
...under oath, which is news to me. Most women I know, if confided in by a good friend about an affair, would keep it secret. And if the good friend asked me to lie under oath about it, I would say no and insist we drop the subject. I would not press a Record button for three months' worth of intimate confidences, all the while feigning friendship...
...subject of his appetites the President is understandably touchy. He was asked last year about his love affair with McDonald's. "It's funny," said Clinton, who didn't look as if he thought it was funny at all. "I haven't eaten at McDonald's a single time since I've been President." To incredulous reporters the White House immediately emphasized that the operative word in the President's answer was eaten; he had in fact drunk coffee at McDonald's. Then it turned out the operative words were eaten at, for he'd eaten Big Macs...
...distinguished guests retired to the garden of the Elysee Palace to chat over champagne and hors d'oeuvres. Chirac caught Clinton by the arm and pulled him off to the side for a private chat with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The subject of this impromptu mini-summit: the plan to kidnap Karadzic...
...finding out what allegations are being leveled against their own intelligence services. On Thursday The Guardian broke the injunction on reporting whistleblower David Shayler's claims that MI6 tried to blow up Libya's Colonel Ghaddafi. How? The Guardian simply reprinted Wednesday's New York Times article on the subject. That forced the Foreign Office to actually deny the story for the first time; an official told Reuters it was "inconceivable" that they would grant the authority for assassinations "in normal peacetime circumstances...