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...very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when infants' conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth surrogate mother rather than one made of wire, even when the wire "mother" carried a food bottle. Harlow's work and subsequent studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills...
...created and wrote most of Babylon 5, which was one of the first TV shows to have a long, multi-season story arc planned out in advance. Now shows like The Wire or Lost are doing the same thing. Are you happy with the show's legacy?We really opened the doors for a lot of shows that followed, creating the notion of a multi-year arc, which really hadn't been done before. You always used to hit the reset button at the end of an episode, because there was a sense that audiences couldn't follow stories across...
...right, a bit more modest in Pittsburgh," says Stuart Hoffman, PNC's chief economist. From ground level, Bob Intrieri can see the same thing. A partner at Allegheny Steel Products, he sells industrial innards to the machine shops and factories in the region: forgings, hubs, steel bars, wire belts used in furnaces--the stuff the global economy runs on. "I call on power-generation shops, and those guys are busy as hell," he says...
...It’s an odd contention that 250,000 chickens would by choice flock into one barn and cram themselves into narrow wire cages. And it doesn’t explain why egg producers have to ‘de-beak’ battery caged chickens–searing off their beaks to stop the stressed birds from pecking each other to death. Both the California Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals endorsed Prop Two, citing the suffering caged animals endure when denied their basic instinct to move...
...March 6, 1970, several Weatherman gathered in the basement of a four-story Greenwich Village townhouse, preparing for an upcoming dynamite attack on an officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Due to an improperly attached wire, the townhouse exploded. Three Weathermen were killed, including Ayers' then-girlfriend Diana Oughton. Over the next few months the rest of the organization went into hiding...