Word: objected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Advertising that promotes one thing by belittling another is inherently weak, but when the belittled object happens to be a different country and the commercial is making fun of its culture, it's offensive...
...just being in the box, having learned that a shock was likely to follow. They learned in similar fashion to be afraid when a bell sounded--a variation on Pavlov's dog experiments. In each case, the Doogies learned faster than normal mice. The same happened with a novel-object test: after becoming familiar with two plastic toys, the Doogies would show special interest when one was replaced; normal mice tended to be equally curious about a familiar object...
...object above...
...another solution that I should have mentioned: Seattle Filmworks www.seattlefilmworks.com) which provides a relatively inexpensive way to digitize your film. It too will put pictures on a disc and, even cooler, will post them on a private website whose address you can share with friends and family. Some might object to a mail-only (at least, outside the West Coast) operation--you have to send in your film, and the company returns it a week or so later. But the prices are competitive, and friends who've used the service swear by it. Best of all, Seattle Filmworks will digitize...
...Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along--a "sub-sub-subspecies" of quasar, a bright object energized by a black hole in its center 8 billion light-years away. That became clear when astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii eyed Djorgovski's puzzle with infrared detectors. "A lot of noise over relatively little," he admitted--though he did see some good to the hoopla...