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...further back than about age seven, the article discussed two distinct kinds of memory. "Flashbulb memories"--a term coined by White's colleague Roger W. Brown, Lindsley Professor of Psychology--consist of pictures of whatever a person is looking at when he gets intensely excited. Script memories, by contrast, string these pictures into narrative stories...
...they are only two heroes of Harvard's best athletic year ever. Departing with Allard and Fusco is perhaps the finest slew of athletes to grace the Harvard fields in recent memory. Graduating today is Adam Dixon, who helped bring a string of Heptagonal trophies to Cambridge for the men's track team. And Howard Sands, who turned the Crimson's men's tennis team into a national powerhouse...
...Echange Corsets Florentine Ecoute Dancing Frozen Emotion Discipline Identification Ennui Exercise Lima beans and Eavers Feathers Marinated Exactitude Femoral intercourse On toast Ketiche Feuille de rose Onions in wine and Guerre Florentine Peas and Imaginaires Foursomes and moresomes Rice ring Inter-texte Friction rub Ring or mousse Isotrope G-string Ring mold with sweetbreads Langue Gadgets and Gimnicks Sauce Lecture Gamahuche Sauteed...
People Express is one of a new breed of discount airlines spawned by Congress's deregulation of the industry in 1978. Others include New York Air, Midway Airlines in Chicago and Muse Air in Dallas. These newcomers have sparked a string of fare wars that along with the recession have crippled the entire industry. People is one of the few carriers that has been able to keep costs low enough to turn a profit. The airline earned $2.1 million in the first quarter, while the eleven largest carriers suffered a combined operating loss of $619 million...
Reagan came into office professing horror at the $1 trillion national debt accumulated over two centuries, which he vividly depicted as "a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high." Yet his economic program could produce a string of record deficits that would increase the debt to more than $1.6 trillion during his term. The future interest payments on this additional debt alone could run higher than $60 billion a year. In contrast to the frenetic maneuvering a year ago to keep his 1983 projected deficit from breaking the $100 billion barrier (the final figure is likely...