Word: anciently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fans who flock to the park each year, Opening Day is the start of a unique lifestyle. They will chant one person's name in unison with 33,000 total strangers and yell with delight when a Yankee strikes out. Young couples in cramped, ancient seats will buy overpriced hot dogs and warm beer. On a bright summer's day, overlooking an emerald baseball diamond, they will fall in love...
...desperately poor and gun-toting young men are a menacing presence. But it is hallowed ground to scientists because of the clues it offers to early human history. Still, even after five years, Erus, a 30-year-old Turkana tribesman, had scored nary a hit--just bits of ancient animal bones and teeth...
...human brain may be a sophisticated thing, but there is an awful lot of ancient programming still etched into it. For "Martin," 21, a dental student in London, Ontario, his fear of snakes is so overwhelming that he stapled together pages in a textbook to avoid flipping to a photo of a snake. He often wakes with nightmares that he is sitting in a bar or a stadium and suddenly sees a snake slithering toward him. "It's odd," he says, "because I'm not in situations where I would ever see snakes...
Contemporary researchers believe it's no coincidence that specific phobias usually fall into one of four subcategories, all of which would have had meaning for our ancient ancestors: fear of insects or animals; fear of natural environments, like heights and the dark; fear of blood or injury; and fear of dangerous situations, like being trapped in a tight space. "Phobias are not random," says Michelle Craske, psychologist at UCLA's Anxiety and Behavioral Disorders Program. "We tend to fear anything that threatens our survival as a species." When times change, new fears develop, but the vast majority still fit into...
...fans who flock to the park each year, Opening Day is the start of a unique lifestyle. They will chant one person's name in unison with 33,000 total strangers and yell with delight when a Yankee strikes out. Young couples in cramped, ancient seats will buy overpriced hot dogs and warm beer. On a bright summer's day, overlooking an emerald baseball diamond, they will fall in love...