Word: braine
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Even so, the evidence that electric currents can be damaging is far from conclusive, scientists agree. Some epidemiological studies indicate a higher than normal incidence of cancer, including leukemia and brain tumors, among children and adults living or working close to power lines. A study in California found that pregnant women who worked on video-display terminals for 20 hours or more a week had twice the risk of miscarrying as other clerical workers. Such findings are suggestive, but the researchers admit that their work does not establish a direct cause-effect relationship...
...genetic material, alter the activity of hormones and other chemicals, and change the behavior of cancer cells. Studies with mice show disruptions in eating, breathing and sleeping patterns. An experiment with human volunteers who were exposed to electromagnetic fields found they experienced a reduced heart rate and modified brain waves...
...some say that the Celtics are doomed even with Bird. Win or lose, watching Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Brain Shaw and Reggie Lewis play basketball is quite a thrill...
...that defiant declaration was Andrew Craig Mead, the rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Church traditionalists like himself, Mead charged, for too long have been "victims of exclusion, ridicule and financial pressure," and are tired of being treated by church liberals as if they were "brain-dead." Mead and 1,800 like-thinking Episcopalians retaliated earlier this month during a three-day meeting in Fort Worth, where they formed an independent church-within-a-church called the Episcopal Synod of America. It is likely to bedevil the Episcopal Church for years to come...
Violent youths frequently have neurological problems and learning disorders, many of which result from brain injuries inflicted in beatings by parents and others. Some suffer from paranoia and hallucinations, and others experience seizures. Some of the most violent children tend to have grossly abnormal electroencephalograms...