Word: realigned
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Heirlooms, though, can also realign the remaining family. "In some cases, siblings rearrange the hierarchy of the family around the object," says Levy. "Whoever got the dining room set becomes the host for family dinners." Whether dinners or other family rituals will carry on, though, is up to the surviving children. "I think my parents were the mortar between the bricks as far as the family goes," says Paul Kane, 39. Seven years ago, he and his three siblings lost both parents within six months of each other. "After they died, we, as individuals, had to make more effort...
...jealousy happens--or visual images or spoken words--but "where" is not the same as "how." We don't know how the brain holds the logical connections among ideas that spell the difference between "Burr slew Hamilton" and "Hamilton slew Burr," between the image of a person winking to realign a contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from the microcircuitry of the living human brain, and most people don't want to donate their brains to science until they're dead. (As Woody...
...much divergent stances on issues that divide them as conceptions of power. McCain feels that power should derive from principles, Bush from tradition and money. McCain wants to see disenfranchised voices brought back into the political fold, Bush wants to be elected. McCain wants to realign the Republican party along less provincial and more democratic lines, Bush wants to cut taxes. These differences, more than any one issue, have both energized liberals to support McCain and energized McCain to hate Bush. It will be interesting to see if McCain--like a defeated Reagan in 1976--can achieve his ultimate goal...