Word: braine
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Counter's scientific research over the years has included mapping the cricket brain, studying acupuncture in the Republic of China and studying why Eskimo men go deaf, which also led to his discovery of the half-Eskimo children of American Arctic explorers Matthew A. Henson and Robert E. Peary in Northwest Greenland...
...children of the lead-glazing village of La Victoria, Ecuador, have the highest lead concentration in their blood, putting them at an enormously high risk for brain damage...
Nevertheless, these far-flung projects do not keep Counter from carrying out socially-oriented work in Boston, such as the time he examined the nervous system of a blind, incapacitated 28-year-old woman born without a brain save for a centimeter-thick layer of tissue behind her eyes. Against the opinion of his colleagues, Counter successfully proved that the woman could hear...
...time Pooh came home. Oh bother, thought Mr. Giuliani, the Mayor of New York. "They've been very happy here," he said, and besides, he added, New York had stopped being a colony a long time ago. Ms. Dunwoody disagreed, and pronounced Mr. Giuliani a Mayor of Very Little Brain. "Fair enough," she said, "I am happy to do battle with the Mayor of New York, any day he likes." The Mayor didn't like this and thought it would be a Good Idea to have his picture taken with the bear. And the press licked their lips...
They documented their findings in the educational film, "Cocaine and the Brain," produced by Holman, which is currently used by the government in the treatment of recovering cocaine addicts...