Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eastern Industries. Microwave beams count traffic coming in from all directions and transmit the total to a central brain at the intersection, which automatically switches lights to speed up the heaviest flow. Price: about $1,000 per intersection, plus installation...
...done with this brilliant scientist if the AEC concurs in the decision by its special board? For the fact remains that Dr. Oppenheimer is a walking repository of highly classified security information. Should we put him in a file marked "extra special top secret?" Or shall we place his brain in a box . . . and surround it by FBI guards night...
...health (a kidney ailment) he would not run again. One morning last week, Hunt entered the Senate Office Building, his coat partially cloaking a .22-cal. Winchester rifle. In his office, Hunt sat down in the swivel chair behind his desk and fired a shot through his brain. Four hours later, after emergency surgery failed, Lester Hunt was dead...
...drug which some have thought might become a psychiatrist's tool, like pentothal and Amytal. The purpose of these drugs is to banish a patient's inhibitions and "bring him out of himself." One of the most effective of these drugs-and most bizarre in its brain-stabbing effects-is lysergic acid diethylamide, better known to the trade...
...After a study of 789 epileptic and non-epileptic children, two Baltimore neurologists, Abraham Lilienfeld and Benjamin Pasamanick, found that most cases of epilepsy appear to stem primarily from brain damage incurred before, during or just after birth. The doctors' conclusion: rather than being victims of inherited disease, epileptics may be "reproductive casualties" (like stillborn infants and cerebral palsy victims) whose ailments could be forestalled partly through better care before and during birth. ¶ Dr. Milford Thewlis of the American Geriatrics Society warned his colleagues that treating the aged as if they were middle-aged often results in dangerous...