Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every movie has its season. This one is a summer movie. It will make you laugh only if you've spent the day on the beach letting the sun dissolve your brain...
Minor reactions to the vaccine, such as redness and swelling, are common. Permanent brain damage, according to one study, occurs only once in about every 300,000 inoculations, death even less frequently. Researchers suspect that these severe complications--which can include convulsions, shock, loss of muscle control and fever--are caused by bacterial toxins. Still, most doctors insist that the shots are worth the risks. Martin Smith, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, calculates that the chances of suffering serious damage from whooping cough are ten times greater than having damaging side effects from the vaccine. Says Dr. Peter...
...these sound just too academic for summer reading, try the Science Fantasy Bookstore (8 JFK St. St.) on top of the Wursthaus, for your favorite new, used and out-of-print science fiction paperbacks and hardcovers. And if any book at all will tax your brain past its limit, the Million Year Picnic (99 Mt. Auburn St.) and Newbury Comics (30 JFK St.) may be the perfect remedy...
...modified toward sameness by the examples of what millions of Americans watch. It also seems to me that television achieves part of its power by appealing to human weaknesses. The habit of viewing it does not encourage reflection or contemplation. The eye is trained to crave novelty, while the brain rests or slumbers. Political debate, which during my last visit seemed a passion and a recreation among Americans, has shrunk to brief bursts of pleasant images. And television's ascent has coincided with a measurable decline in the ability of young people to read. Democracy cannot function without an informed...
...with a question that he cannot immediately answer, Daly plugs into a network that reaches from the company's Pittsburgh headquarters to its El Segundo, Calif., aerospace facility, linking 10,000 terminals, 7,000 personal computers, 60 high-performance minicomputers and one Cray X-MP supercomputer. Tapping that electronic brain trust, he can quickly get answers on anything from the status of Rockwell's satellites to the prospects for more B-1 bombers. "The value of networking is that you can share data and information," says James Sutter, Rockwell's general manager of information systems. "But the biggest advantage--increased...