Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twin Mysteries. In their work, all of these researchers are striving toward two major goals: explaining learning and memory. Anatomically, there is no specific learning center in the brain, and there is no explanation for learning. "There is no known basis for learning; it cannot take place," says Teuber. "In fact," he adds jokingly, "as a teacher, I sometimes wonder if it does...
Before the encounter, Astronaut Carr spotted a puzzling red color in the comet's tail. That may mean that Kohoutek has more moisture than most comets, for this tint suggests concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen, the two components of water. In other respects, Kohoutek's twin tails-one composed of dust particles, the other of glowing gases -seem to be developing normally. As the comet began its hairpin turn round the sun, the dust tail blown by the slight pressure of sunlight continued to trail behind. But the plasma tail, interacting with the solar wind, moved...
...Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko and A Question of Madness) had marked him as a troublesome enemy of partiinost, that spirit of party orthodoxy that so many other Russian intellectuals, such as Pasternak, Daniel and Sinyavski, Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, have been un able to accommodate. Medvedev's twin brother Roy, author of a massive anti-Stalinist work called Let History Judge, has also proved difficult. When Zhores Medvedev's Ten Years After Ivan Denisovich appeared in England last spring (TIME, May 28), it was apparently the guarantee of his exile...
...person in town to lose his job because of the energy crisis; the station had to close up this month because it could find no gas to sell. Wall residents are beginning to worry and wonder whether their community will go the way of nearby Quinn, which was a twin hamlet in the 1950s but has turned into a virtual ghost town because it is well removed from the highway...
...following week in the United States, congressmen protested, editorials condemned American support of the junta, and among others UAW president Leonard Woodcock said: "The power of the dictatorship has rested on the twin base of arms and credits, both supplied in abundance by the U.S. Its reputation was internationally vouched for by Spiro T. Agnew, the convicted tax-evader...