Yawn Reflex
The yawn reflex (pandiculation) is not a classical neural reflex arc, but rather a coordinated neural and muscular arousal reflex mediated by the brain stem. A yawn is a sequence of events...
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I guess I should try to like-or at least understand-some of the summer schlock that pours up from Hollywood hell every year, when the weather turns unbearable and otherwise sane people think nothin...
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Seoul (dpa) - The so-called "English divide" is driving South
Korean children abroad to study the language, resulting in a record
increase in the number of unaccompanied min...
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A newspaper connected to China's ruling Communist Party has called on local governments to use less force when dealing with protesters.A protest against rising bus fares in Hunan province this mont...
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Wednesday that the Bush administration was doing all it could to get China to move more quickly on currency reform in the face of a soaring U.S. tr...
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She could have danced all night. Instead, she stifled yawns.Hotel heiress/reality TV star Paris Hilton certainly didn't look like she was having a ball Thursday night at the Vienna Opera Ball, Aust...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has not endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate, but his son has.Rory Reid is signing on as Nevada chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's preside...
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Finance officials from the world's wealthiest countries expressed confidence Friday that the global economy will experience strong growth despite risks."Although risks remain, the global economy is...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
SUDAN: DEAL OR NO DEAL? (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
ON TUESDAY, the Sudanese government seemed to give advocates
pushing for an end ...
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Local Chinese leaders will have a better chance of winning job promotions if they can limit social unrest in rural areas, state media on Sunday quoted a ruling Communist Party official as saying.Th...
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Yawn Reflex
Bat-Riddles Solved! Yawn, Not Really
