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...both sides are wary of sounding too negative. The last thing a politician wants in a time of economic hardship is to appear as if there's no hope. "If the GOP are too much doom and gloom, that can work to our advantage," says the senior Treasury official. The Republicans seem already to know that. Says McConnell: "As Americans, we are united in our efforts to get the economy back on track and put more people back to work...
...don’t realize that it’s really a bunch of neurons firing away up there,” Livingstone says. “Their whole job is to extract information about the environment, and how these patterns of neurons fire is really a nontrivial thing...
...Mimicry causing divergence is one thing, but if you have mate choice based on color differences, you’re really setting the stage for finding genes that contribute to reproductive isolation,” she said...
...don’t mean to sound like a pessimistic Peter—there were some great things about my quarantine. For one I got to meet Brett, a tall, mask-wearing junior from Lowell. Brett and I didn’t get to talk much, on account of his prolonged bout of dry-heaving, but we agreed to stay friends even after the misfortune that had brought us together was over. The other great thing was the food. Some people have said that the diet of soup and popsicles was unsatisfying, but these people are crazy. What?...
...here that the narrative person-shifts take place; Walker, after finding himself stuck, follows Freeman’s advice: “By writing about myself in the first person, I had smothered myself and made myself invisible, had made it impossible for me to find the thing I was looking for. I needed to separate myself from myself.” Walker’s literary distance—within the context of these self-conscious sections—helps him look for himself in darkly tinged sexuality and self-revelation...