Word: knots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with some fancy ball handling, he was taken down hard in from behind in the box by a charging Crimson defender. Surprisingly, no card was given, but the damage was done as Providence was awarded a penalty kick. Captain Mike Eisenhut promptly beat Meagher low to the right to knot the game...
...memory systems, they can't learn new motor skills. An Alzheimer's patient can learn to draw in a mirror but can't remember doing it; a Huntington's patient can't do it but can remember trying to learn. Yet another region of the brain, an almond-size knot of neural tissue known as the amygdala, seems to be crucial in forming and triggering the recall of a special subclass of memories that is tied to strong emotion, especially fear. The hippocampus allows us to remember having been afraid; the amygdala evidently calls up the goosebumps that go along...
...third start-up, and each time he has risked everything. In his spare time, McCue gets himself off the ground. He's also an avid rock climber. "I like to feel self-reliant and independent," he says. "And when I'm up there, I know if I make a knot wrong...
...weird pleasure of watching Barney's art is seeing whatever improbable carnival comes next. If you're willing to spend the time to untie his Gordian knot of symbolic acts and images--and they do indeed unknot--you'll find a maniacal, systematic and deeply imagined vision of a world as strangely alternate as Lewis Carroll's in Through the Looking Glass. If you dig into the swelling body of criticism about Barney, knowing references repeat themselves, from Joseph Beuys, the late German master of performance art and social spectacles, to video pioneer Vito Acconci to the powerful minimalist sculptor...
...plane was facing winds of over 50 m.p.h., it was in danger, says Flight Safety Foundation president Stuart Matthews. "That's a helluva lot of wind, and most aircraft can't handle it." Even American Airlines vice president Cecil Ewell told reporters, "If somebody told me there were 50-knot [57.5-m.p.h.] gusts at the airport, I would be leaving town...