Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...link what I am talking about with musical themes," says Cox. "Students associate what I am saying with some other dimension of the brain," Cox adds, explaining that students tend to remember facts by association. "I play the theme again, as students come into the classroom, and it gets them remembering...
Meet the Harvard athlete, whose brain is invariably bigger than his--or her--brawn...
...eight months, Charles Griffith, 25, a theater projectionist, kept a vigil in a special-care ward of Miami Children's Hospital at the bedside of his comatose daughter Joy, 3. Injured last October when her neck became wedged in the footrest of a reclining chair, Joy suffered irreversible brain damage. Two weeks ago, after an evening visit with his daughter, Griffith fired two .32- cal. bullets into the child's heart, killing her. Griffith, who faces a first- degree murder charge, said last week, "I didn't want to see her hurt anymore. She couldn't eat, she couldn...
Black Leader Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice...
Though nothing new, the brain drain has recently seemed more than ever to be taking from the poor and giving to the rich: whereas 30 years ago most well- qualified newcomers to the U.S. arrived from Europe, now they stream in from the poorer countries of the Third World. "It is indeed paradoxical," says Dr. D.N. Misra, adviser to India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, "that the underdeveloped countries, which have the greatest need for scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals, are in fact losing many of their best-educated young men to the developed countries." Even among...