Word: thrillingly
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...bright sun, the cold crisp air, the thrill of schussing down a snow-packed mountain surrounded by powder and pine. On the surface, there would seem to be few better ways to celebrate Nordic nature than with a ski vacation--until you consider the wildlife displaced by the trails, the ecosystems destroyed by artificial snow and the energy-hungry lifts, snow machines and hotels that are an integral part of a skiing holiday. Not to mention the miles in the SUV to get everyone there. Ski resorts by their very nature have a pretty big carbon footprint. They are also...
...Hopefully, this unique fan experience of cheering the Crimson to the top of Boston hockey will leave you similarly enlightened. Immerse yourself in the thrill of practicing yet another Harvard tradition, even if no one can predict when the Crimson will have the opportunity to experience it again...
...expat's Swiss home. Rates average around 30%, but vary among cantons - in Geneva, taxes are on the higher side, while in less crowded cantons like Zug (an increasingly popular spot for foreign hedge-fund managers) they can be less than 15%. For good measure, there's the added thrill of being able to call singer Shania Twain, tennis champion Boris Becker and Formula One stars Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton your neighbors...
...Most people eventually do leave the poker game or the dinner table, after all. Something has to turn the exhilaration of a new partner into what can approach an obsession, and that something is the brain's nucleus accumbens, located slightly higher and farther forward than the ventral tegmental. Thrill signals that start in the lower brain are processed in the nucleus accumbens via not just dopamine but also serotonin and, importantly, oxytocin. If ever there was a substance designed to bind, it's oxytocin...
Happily, romance needn't come to ruin. Even irrational animals like ourselves would have quit trying if the bet didn't pay off sometimes. The eventual goal of any couple is to pass beyond serial dating--beyond even the thrill of early love--and into what's known as companionate love. That's the coffee-and-Sunday-paper phase, the board-games-when-it's-raining phase, and the fact is, there's not a lick of excitement about it. But that, for better or worse, is adaptive too. If partners are going to stay together for the years...