Word: switch
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...only a couple of years after his karting debut as an eight-year-old that Hamilton raced to his first British championship. And countless more karting titles followed before he made the switch to cars in 2001. En route to winning the entry-level British Formula Renault series in 2003, he "made seasoned drivers look silly," says Tony Shaw, Hamilton's then team manager at Manor Motorsport. Hamilton's raw, natural speed and canny race craft nudged him closer to the big leagues. Hamilton's "understanding of when and where to overtake and how to take advantage of a situation...
...Washington, though now it might be Democratic heresy to say it, Senator Lieberman should also take a stand and switch parties...
This means that scientists can, in effect, switch off a person's grasp of numbers. It's fascinating, both because it reduces a serious learning disability to the mere flick of a neural switch and because, by doing so, it holds out a tantalizing possibility that one day a cure may be as simple as flicking that switch in reverse. Cohen Kadosh hopes the result will allow scientists to develop a diagnostic tool for dyscalculia based on neuroimaging. Identifying children with developmental dyscalculia would let parents intervene earlier to teach important math concepts, just as they can intervene today...
...While student satisfaction is certainly one reason to pursue calendar reform...there are important health-related, personal and administrative reasons to switch from the current calendar to our proposed calendar,” the letter reads...
...that it was also common at sleep onset and shortly before waking in the morning. But he found an even weaker spot in the Hobson-McCarley hypothesis. If their theory was right, then people with damage to a part of the brain stem called the pons-the on-off switch for REM sleep-shouldn't be having dreams. Solms, however, had five patients with lesions in precisely that region, and while they weren't having REM, they were nonetheless reporting dreams...