Word: special
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to throw away 150 years of special experiences with foolish partying," said former Spee club trustee John W. Sears...
While many have applauded a deal that has at last made women full partners with men at Harvard, others have wondered if Harvard can respond to undergraduate women's special needs now that Radcliffe has abdicated all responsibility...
...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 with each such memory...
...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...
...wants to know why the flares were used at all. "These flares are potentially a very important issue, inasmuch as the government had enormous spotlights trained on the compound throughout the standoff," Francis told The Dallas Morning News. Flares, fires, those redacted-out mentions of the role of Army special forces in the siege ? Danforth had better decide quickly whether he's taking the job if he wants any of the good evidence to be left when he starts work. The House Committee on Government Reform (that?s Dan Burton?s boys), the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Henry Hyde...