Word: transients
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...Hoyos says, “especially when I get to be on top.” The dances, more than anything else, reveal just how hot it is inside of the Kit Kat Club. While the outside world freezes and dies, Bradshaw and the others find transient solace through decadence. Indeed, as Mr. Bradshaw says, “It’s so tacky and terrible and everyone is having such a great time...
...just stars who are at risk, of course. In Bombay, in any stratum, survival often means keeping up with transient gangster bosses. Local toughs enslave the poor, taking a cut on everything from beggars to brothels. The thugs owe their power to their bosses, who call themselves Bhai, or brother, and live abroad in Pakistan, Dubai, Kenya, New Jersey?far beyond the reach of Indian police. From these lavish lairs the mobsters run their empires?and, if the Shakeel tapes are to be believed, they run up hefty bills with cell-phone calls to Bollywood royalty. Few stars can escape...
...doctors believe her sensations were caused by a failure of the brain to integrate tactile sensations and balance. Transient out-of-body experiences can occur in anyone, but a glance around is usually all it takes to ground the brain in reality again. The right angular gyrus, however, sits quite near the vestibular cortex, the seat of balance. Jolting the Swiss patient's gyrus apparently threw the delicate feedback system out of synch--creating a state of neural chaos that was exacerbated when she moved her eyes and body. Whether shamans achieve the same state through meditation is impossible...
...concerns lie elsewhere. Even the most energetic public relations effort by the aforementioned booster, the doyen of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District and Hyannis’ leading Babbitt, cannot reconcile the Kennedy Compound with the homeless camp, the lobster-wielding old salt with the shuffling transient and the undulating sand dunes with the drifts of tiny liquor bottles that sanitation workers shoveled into dump trucks in mid-July. The homeless camps hurt the tourist industry; the homeless camps...
Jonathan H. Esensten ’04, a Crimson editor, is a biochemical sciences concentrator in Lowell House. In his lab at Harvard Medical School, he’s learning the joys of transient transfections and Western blots. The data look promising...