Word: whacks
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...Sensitive souls whack Medusa? That's the thing. I look at people like Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson. They had humor and romance and vulnerability in their action movies. That's what I have striven...
GABA is not the only neurotransmitter system that goes out of whack at puberty, Giedd notes. Recent studies at Harvard suggest that dopamine receptors also temporarily proliferate, a change that might be related to the impulsiveness and risk-taking behaviors seen in teens. These bursts of brain changes seem to be connected to developmentally sensitive periods, says Giedd. Understanding them better just might unlock some of the enduring puzzles of adolescent behavior...
...empty Baluchistan desert; others are holed up in the nearby mountains of Musa Qala, while the rest have decamped to Nimruz province, a major smuggler's crossing into Iran. Says Gretchen Peters, an author and expert on Taliban drug ties with traffickers: "Counternarcotics, just like counterinsurgency, is like playing whack-a-mole. You knock it out in one place, and it pops up somewhere else." (See pictures of Afghanistan's battlefield priest...
...political classes as even more venal than its bankers. But Clegg's modernizing zeal, and the language he uses, could scare the horses. "I almost sound Marxist saying this, but I really think when you have a political architecture and set of institutions which is so out of whack with how people are actually behaving and acting, that can't carry on forever," he tells TIME. A little later he confides, "I've always regarded European integration not as an inhibition of British sovereignty but an extension...
...look for any major changes that might restore Pentagon spending to its more modest Cold War levels. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took a good whack at unneeded weapons systems in last year's budget, killing the F-22 fighter and other programs of dubious merit. Unfortunately, his minions seem to believe that this one-time slice is sufficient. Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, said Feb. 17 that he believes last year's cuts mean that additional program cancellations "won't be necessary...