Word: touchings
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...only does kissing serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a sample of MHC, but it also magnifies the other attraction signals--if only as a result of proximity. Scent is amplified up close, as are sounds and breaths and other cues. And none of that begins to touch the tactile experience that was entirely lacking until intimate contact was made. "At the moment of a kiss, there's a rich and complicated exchange of postural, physical and chemical information," says Gallup. "There are hardwired mechanisms that process all this...
...only does kissing serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a sample of MHC, but it also magnifies the other attraction signals-if only as a result of proximity. Scent is amplified up close, as are sounds and breaths and other cues. And none of that begins to touch the tactile experience that was entirely lacking until intimate contact was made. "At the moment of a kiss, there's a rich and complicated exchange of postural, physical and chemical information," says Gallup. "There are hardwired mechanisms that process all this...
...this kind of treatment makes one wish that faculty approval were not required to bring these issues out of bureaucratic limbo. Students want to see reforms immediately, and a Faculty that does not care whether reforms are implemented next week, next year, or next decade seems woefully out of touch with the urgent need to modernize Harvard’s academics. That the Faculty traditionally blows off the January meeting is hardly a justification for canceling tomorrow’s important meeting. Students are required to be on campus during reading period, and to ask for less responsibility from Faculty?...
...think what it might have done is to put into the public arena what happens to me every single day on a private level. I have those encounters with people that touch me and really move me all the time ... I think what that moment really illustrated is, Guess what? Those of us who get up on the stage and make the speeches and shake the hands and do the interviews are also human beings...
...vote. I began to sense that we were going to do well." She didn't say anything when she got back to the hotel; the first exit polls still had her about 9 points down. "I thought, You know, either I have totally lost my touch for figuring out what voters are thinking and doing, or this is going to be a lot better than anybody thinks...