Word: blossoms
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...adolescence, around the age of 18, the brain has declined in plasticity but increased in power. Talents and latent tendencies that have been nurtured are ready to blossom. The experiences that drive neural activity, says Yale's Rakic, are like a sculptor's chisel or a dressmaker's shears, conjuring up form from a lump of stone or a length of cloth. The presence of extra material expands the range of possibilities, but cutting away the extraneous is what makes art. "It is the overproduction of synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says...
...cancer research for inspiration. Oncologists have learned that it is often better to combine the firepower of several different chemotherapeutic drugs than to rely on any single medication to destroy cancer cells. Too often, they have found, the one-drug approach allows a few malignant cells to survive and blossom into an even more lethal tumor. The AIDS researchers faced a similar problem with HIV. Whenever they prescribed a single drug, such as AZT, for their patients, a few viral particles would survive and give rise to drug-resistant...
...riots, he started ICF, a summer training-and-mentoring program that helps minority high school graduates break into the behind-the-scenes crafts of Hollywood. Of the 85 students who have completed the program, 31 have landed studio jobs. Says Heinrich: "Talent, if stimulated in the right way, will blossom...
...managing portfolios doesn't need much fixing. Fidelity's rise to the top of the industry has been underpinned by what is called bottom-up investing-- basically outworking the competition, digging deeper for information, discovering growth companies before anyone else does and holding on to them until they blossom...
...Blue Grass Boys after his home state, Kentucky. The group soon took on the bluegrass configuration of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bass and banjo, paired with the near-falsetto harmonies that Monroe called his "high, lonesome sound." Bluegrass lives on across the country, including at his own Bean Blossom festival in Indiana...