Word: touche
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Mari E. Foreman '99 also transfered from a small school--Pepperdine College in southern California. She, too, missed the personal touch of her old school...
...acts as if he still owns the joint, as if he's still a Southwestern Gatsby peddling hundreds of millions of dollars of soon-to-be-worthless junk bonds to elderly Southern Californians. Can Keating still summon U.S. Senators--the Keating Five--to his defense at the touch of a phone pad? Or procure the services of top law and accounting firms? Or hire Alan Greenspan, who, before he became Fed chairman, gushed over the "outstanding success" of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Keating's star asset? No. All that happened before Lincoln crashed in a $3.4 billion pile of broken dreams...
...arise from coordinated waves of neural activity, and that those pulsing waves, like currents shifting sand on the ocean floor, actually change the shape of the brain, carving mental circuits into patterns that over time will enable the newborn infant to perceive a father's voice, a mother's touch, a shiny mobile twirling over the crib...
...wirelike fibers known as axons (which transmit signals) and dendrites (which receive them). The objective is to form a synapse, the gap-like structure over which the axon of one neuron beams a signal to the dendrites of another. Before this can happen, axons and dendrites must almost touch. And while the short, bushy dendrites don't have to travel very far, axons--the heavy-duty cables of the nervous system--must traverse distances that are the microscopic equivalent of miles...
...couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening's taping in a studio in Queens, New York. Told about the reports in his dressing room, the actor picked up the phone and, through his publicist, David Brokaw, got in touch with the l.a.p.d. On the line was police commander Tim McBride: "I have the worst news to tell you, and I'm very sorry...