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...Bark & New. What is generally agreed is that the most primitive emotions and reactions, such as hunger and sex drives, are experienced in the hypothalamus (see diagram). In general, the higher the functions, the higher their seats in the brain-rising through the thalami and their branches, and the basal ganglia, to the paleocortex ("old bark"), which man shares with the higher animals...
...brain differs from the animals' in having a huge neocortex, a thick new bark containing billions of nerve cells. Each half of the cortex is divided into four main lobes: frontal (behind the forehead), temporal (inside the temple), parietal (under the crown), and occipital (at the back of the head). Animals do not speak, write, or think abstractly, and presumably both halves of their brains are equally active. At birth, the human brain is little different from an animal's. A newborn infant who has suffered severe damage to the left side of the brain may have almost...
Died. Francis Carino Alberto Milano, 44. a mimic of sounds on U.S. network airwaves, whose talented bark for RCA Victor's "His Master's Voice'' and tasty Snap! Crackle! Pop! for Kellogg's Rice Krispies earned him a 330-acre upstate New York farm where, so he said, even the chipmunks thought he was real; of a heart attack; in Hudson...
...part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball, called and slopped hogs, milked cows, and walked through fields eating sugar cane. She can whistle through her teeth loud enough to split the bark off a pine...
...shack, grabbed a microphone and told a story about a coon dog that ran into a barbed wire fence and got cut up. A vet put the dog back together, but got the head at the wrong end. "Now," shouted Wyatt, "that dog is like my opponent. He can bark at both ends and run in both directions at the same time." The crowd loved it: this was Democratic country...