Word: travels
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...chemical that causes female orgasm, and one of these days they may be able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem, bypassing the spinal column. That surprising discovery led to the isolation of a chemical called vasoactive intestinal peptide, which Professor Barry Komisaruk says is the neurotransmitter, or nervous system chemical messenger...
Lastly, one of Harvard's student run businesses, Let's Go Travel, is sponsored a charter flight full of Harvard students going to the Bahamas, Cancun, and Jamaica. Wong's article fails to report on the die-hard spring-breakers headed off to tropical paradise...
Vincent S.R. Brandt, acting director of the Korea Institute, said the Institute is attempting to increase its endowment to maintain the quality of its programs. The Institute currently offers a wide range of seminars, fellowships, travel grants and public cultural events...
...Luce Scholar, Hanafi will spend a year in Asia and receive an $18,000 stipend, in addition to funds for language study, travel, and housing...
DIED. V.S. PRITCHETT, 96, writer, critic and all-around British man of letters; in London. Literally a child of this century, Sir Victor (he was knighted in 1975) turned out pithy, highly polished prose in a variety of genres, including travel writing, memoirs (A Cab at the Door, 1968), biographies, novels (Dead Man Leading, 1937) and numerous collections of literary criticism and short stories. He was a rare book reviewer who could also create memorable fiction. His stories, comic but sympathetic renderings of the antic aspirations of ordinary people, remained refreshingly old-fashioned and essentially timeless and enduring, given...