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When Holgersen wants to pick up a glass, he moves his right shoulder upward. This movement sends an electrical signal from the position sensor, which is worn under his clothing, to the stimulator in his chest, which amplifies it and passes it along to the appropriate muscles in his arm and hand. In response, the muscles contract and his left hand closes. When he wants to release the glass, he moves his right shoulder downward and his left hand opens...
...these conditions in more subtle ways over time. When other self-centered playwrights act on us, we act back. It eventually becomes difficult to find a genuine source at the bottom of this insincere drama, though each of us originally intended to start out as one. In this upward spiral of self-consciousness, it is easy to lose awareness not only of other people but of yourself as well...
Most of the tapestries show upward movement as a metaphor for lightness and hope, especially in “I Wish to Be Like the Wind,” where a face and reaching hands burst out of an upward rising spiral. This tapestry is set to a poem which reads as a direct response to the disillusionment of the Shining Path years...
More takes the traditional women's magazine recipe of celebrities, health, beauty and fashion, seasons it with travel and investment tips and ages it 20 years. Recent issues have investigated an upward spiral in age-discrimination suits, explored Vietnam War memories from the perspective of a veteran's wife and profiled Linda Fairstein, 54, a New York City sex-crime prosecutor who writes mystery novels...
...type" facilities. In the worst clashes, in December 2000, 30 prisoners and two guards were killed. In other incidents, two former inmates blew themselves up in suicide attacks on police, while family members and other sympathizers joined the "death fast." With the toll of fatalities inching upward and no resolution in sight, the government ponders its options as it continues to pursue reforms that it hopes will please the E.U. "People don't have a right to die," says Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk, who is responsible for the country's prisons. Like many in Turkey, he sees the hunger...