All of us, but most especially the younger generations, are gradually strengthening new neural pathways while weakening old ones needed for one-on-one personal communication.

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Researchers are discovering that daily exposure to computers, smart phones, video games, Internet search engines, etc. stimulates brain cell alteration and neurotransmitter release, gradually strengthening new neural pathways while weakening old ones.

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But when the project was done he learned that the Israeli engineers were disgruntled because the American team was producing new products while they maintained old ones.

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They note that some old problems persist while new ones are cropping up.

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But while the British troops learn new tricks and teach old ones in the Sunni triangle, they will leave a gap behind.

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Only a few, the old ones, covered their insolence with glacial politeness, while the younger ones became either servile or friendly to the point of taking liberties, thinking thereby to win her favor.

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The division of labour runs thus: the younger Takenaka, Kenji, chisels the cherry-wood blocks to old designs and new ones of his own invention, while his father Seihachi runs off the prints by hand, one by one.

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But in May 1999, Mr Yeltsin proved that the old dog, while too feeble to learn new tricks, could still employ tried and tested ones.

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However, while Mr Murdoch has no illusions about the difficulties of making the new digital services as profitable as the old analogue ones, he believes that moving early is everything.

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