Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some undergraduates make five dollars by playing computer games for half an hour. Others earn 20 dollars by sitting in a room alone. And then there are those who earn the princely sum of 50 dollars for letting researchers scan an image of their brain...
...gaudy mansion of Clinton's mind there are many rooms with heavy doors, workrooms and playrooms, rooms stuffed with trophies, rooms to stash scandals and regrets. He walks lightly amid the ironies of his talents and behavior, just by consigning them to different cubbies of his brain. It's an almost scary mind, that of a multitasking wizard who plays hearts while he talks on the phone with a head of state, who sits through a dense briefing on chemical weapons intently doing a crossword puzzle, only to take reporters' questions hours later and repeat whole sections of the briefing...
...goes right into some primitive part of the brain," he said...
...immediately assailed by the art-deco-neon-overload-meets-industrial-constructi on set, complete with a live band, stacks of old books as props, local stand-up comic Greg Fitzsimmons as host, two attractive brunette "hostesses" (Heather and Shonda) in tight pastel blue outfits and a giant brain sitting in the center of the set. "`Jeopardy' on acid," I thought...
...While cigarettes are bad for your health, nicotine is very good for the brain," he says. "It is a relaxant as well as a depressant and it stimulates thinking...