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...husband have identified regions they think may serve as convergence zones in the brain's left hemisphere. An area in the temporal lobe pulls together information about the names of objects, animals and people, for instance, while another area in the frontal cortex appears to act as the nexus for verbs. Yet a third oversees the task of assembling nouns and verbs into sentences...
...enemy has almost reached the point where he can touch the golden ring," Koernke intones in the video. "All their different schemes, plotting and conniving have come to a nexus, a point in time at which they have the opportunity to grab everything." The only hope, he declares, lies in inducing the conspirators to act prematurely, before their confederates in the Federal Government have managed to completely disarm the Patriots. "If we are lucky, we can get them to move too quickly." War on American soil is probably inevitable. "Did I say it was going to be a short...
...Zealand's Maori are caught at a nexus of civilizations. Ever since the British conceded land rights to the great Maori warriors, the aborted attempt to dominate the island has translated into a process of westernization which threatens to complete the job. Traditionalists always have expressed their dismay at the needless pain the cultural division has so evidently caused. Now Maori artists like Alan Duff, on whose book the movie is based, and director Lee Tamahori are joining in the fight...
...fans like me are inured to disappointment. You can look it up. We know too that our idols are also commodities. Indeed, for us, the evil nexus of money and sports began in Boston in 1919, when the Sox owner sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees to raise the funds to produce No, No, Nanette on Broadway...
...more than 1200 members of the Harvard community filled Harvard Yard for the dedication of Memorial Church. Built to commemorate Harvard's 373 war dead, the church was to serve as a religious nexus for the largely Protestant University...