Word: faint
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...when my lips and eyelids swelled up like little balloons in a violent allergic reaction to some still unnamed flower), I viewed the first day of school as something of a gift. Here I was, heading back to the trenches, with a new haircut (generally middling to bad), a faint tan (left over from summer camp) and a great pair of corduroys (it is just me, or was fall much less humid back in the ?70s?). I would head off to the bus stop with my neighbors, or start the one-mile trek to my high school with an unmistakable...
...best thing that can be said about the new Apple G4 Cube is that having one on your desk really does make you feel as if you're living in the year 2000. This is no faint praise. We've long dreamed of what life would be like in this milestone year, and it nearly always involved flying cars and moon cities. Cell phones and the Internet may be great leaps forward, but they don't quite have that instant gee-whiz factor our younger selves expected from Tomorrowland. A supercomputer packed into a space smaller than a toaster...
...they are actually the party of diversity, the Dems are countering by eschewing their traditional left flank and moving to meet their adversaries in that nebulous region known as the political center. That means, of course, that the old lefties are left high and dry, aching for even a faint echo of the battle cries of yesteryear. And they're certainly not going to get it from Joe Lieberman or Al Gore...
...audio feed. Almost inaudible, but at full volume has a seductive, murmur-like sound, as though I am picking up the faint echoes of a political convention somewhere in the afterworld...
There is evidently no way to help these unfortunate folks (though, admittedly, they don't know what they're missing). But for instrumentalists, at least, music can evidently trigger physical changes in the brain's wiring. By measuring faint magnetic fields emitted by the brains of professional musicians, a team led by Christo Pantev of the University of Muenster's Institute of Experimental Audiology in Germany has shown that intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated with higher brain function...