Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transfers do not come here expecting excessive nurturing. But we do need to be shown the ropes better than we have been. If the Administration does not want to make transfer students feel welcome, it must let other students do so. Given the Administration's behavior, sometimes I wonder why Harvard admits transfers at all. Transfers could well be Harvard's most loyal advocates; they have experienced life at other colleges, but were so convinced of Harvard's merits that they were willing to give up everything they worked for at their previous schools to be here. Since Harvard does...
...watch the offense for a quarter or so, the apparent depth and talent at running back is so amazing that you begin to wonder if this isn't really a huge state school tailback farm ala Joe Paterno and State College...
With so many affluent, culturally aware parents busy parenting, it's no wonder authors have been busy authoring, cashing in with truckloads of books about you and your child. The trend has even touched the fluffiest genre of nonfiction, the self-help book. Commercially, the match is a natural; intellectually, it's problematic. A self-help book about child rearing is almost an oxymoron. Self-help literature, as the name implies, proceeds from a claustrophobic obsession with self--how to improve the self, how to make the self feel better about itself and, pre-eminently, how to make the self...
With such a broad neurological portfolio, it is no wonder these mood-changing brain chemicals have been implicated in so many mental disorders. And it is not surprising that serotonin appears to be especially important--the first among equals, in a sense. The nerve cells that specialize in serotonin production originate in the raphe nuclei, in a region right atop the spine that nimh's Hyman calls "the deep basement of the brain." From there, these neurons extend vinelike projections called axons up through the brain and down into the spinal column. The axons form a sort of neurological interstate...
...receptor. As many as 15 distinct receptors have been identified for serotonin alone. And since a given nerve cell may have more or fewer receptors, depending on where in the brain it is located, a jolt of a particular neurotransmitter can generate electrical signals of widely varying strengths. Small wonder, therefore, that serotonin can affect everything from satiety to depression...