Word: touche
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...involving the First Lady, according to lawyers who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Of particular interest to prosecutors is what role, if any, the Clintons had in securing a fraudulent $300,000 loan for McDougal's wife Susan. Starr's investigation is also expected to touch on the subpoenaed billing records of work Mrs. Clinton did for the Rose law firm, which disappeared during the 1992 campaign only to reappear last year in the First Family?s living quarters. McDougal's story, if it checks out, supposedly will shed light on these issues. The problem...
...found that professors here really do care about how students are doing and what their interests are. Most professors don't talk to students very often and, in the rare instances when they do, the conversations generally focus on academics. As a result, the professors are somewhat out of touch with student life at Harvard. But they make up for their lack of knowledge about student affairs with their genuine concern for students' well-being and with their interest in student opinions and research...
When a baby is born, it can see and hear and smell and respond to touch, but only dimly. The brain stem, a primitive region that controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing, has completed its wiring. Elsewhere the connections between neurons are wispy and weak. But over the first few months of life, the brain's higher centers explode with new synapses. And as dendrites and axons swell with buds and branches like trees in spring, metabolism soars. By the age of two, a child's brain contains twice as many synapses and consumes twice as much energy...
What wires a child's brain, say neuroscientists--or rewires it after physical trauma--is repeated experience. Each time a baby tries to touch a tantalizing object or gazes intently at a face or listens to a lullaby, tiny bursts of electricity shoot through the brain, knitting neurons into circuits as well defined as those etched onto silicon chips. The results are those behavioral mileposts that never cease to delight and awe parents. Around the age of two months, for example, the motor-control centers of the brain develop to the point that infants can suddenly reach out and grab...
...matter how technological our world becomes or how connected we are to the information highway, nothing can replace the human touch in our lives. Although I have been gratified by a successful career in politics, it is my four children who give me my greatest pleasure. Their raw, untechnological smiles are more engaging than the potential for the digital age. I appreciate how our world is changing and advancing, mostly for the better, because of people like Gates. However, we must never forget the human element. LAURIE BLACK San Diego...