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...That's the pact that 14 English children unknowingly signed in the fall of 1963 when Michael Apted and Gordon McDougall, two researchers for the Granada TV public affairs show World in Action, selected them to appear in a 40-min. documentary called Seven Up!, directed by Paul Almond. The kids were chosen to represent English classes and regions: Jackie, Lynn and Sue from a London council estate, John, Andrew and Charles from a Kensington boarding school, Paul and Simon (originally spelled Symon) from a charity home, Neil and Peter from a Liverpool suburb, Suzy from a titled family, Nicholas...
...risk-assessment mechanisms of the human mind, Joseph LeDoux, a professor of neuroscience at New York University and the author of The Emotional Brain, studies fear pathways in laboratory animals. He explains that the jumpiest part of the brain--of mouse and man--is the amygdala, a primitive, almond-shaped clump of tissue that sits just above the brainstem. When you spot potential danger--a stick in the grass that may be a snake, a shadow around a corner that could be a mugger--it's the amygdala that reacts the most dramatically, triggering the fight-or-flight reaction that...
...have attended many quiet delivery rooms and I always pause outside the door, offering a quick prayer. Most recently, I was called to see an infant whose physical appearance suggested a diagnosis of Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome. Baby Bobby had almond-shaped eyes, a single crease across each of his palms, and an enlarged tongue. The spaces between his toes were also enlarged and the tone of his muscles was low. A definitive diagnosis required an analysis of his chromosomes and would take days. I joined the parents with Bobby bundled in a blanket and began to point...
Born in Tunisia, Azria grew up in Paris, one of six children of an olive-oil producer and a homemaker. As a teenager he sold sugared-almond candy on the street and stumbled upon his interest in fashion only "by accident" at the age of 16 when he was hired as an apprentice to "an old man in the business" (he's vague on the details). After studying classics in college, he designed and ran a womenswear line for 11 years. "It was very junior and very technical," he says. "I learned the business there?production, manufacturing, development...
Then I set about trying to predict the results. On my father's side, I figured, high cheekbones and almond eyes probably showed evidence of native-Andean blood. The aquiline profiles and curly hair on my mother's side, on the other hand, are common on Mediterranean shores. My best guess: I was mostly European, a bit of native South American and perhaps a dash of Middle Eastern. But like most other people who do this sort of thing, I also secretly hoped I would be related to an American Indian tribe with a lucrative casino operation. Anything that would...