Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight against addiction, breakthrough promises have been made and broken many times; methadone was once considered a miracle drug, and heroin itself was developed to cure addictions. But researchers say buprenorphine could be the answer. Like heroin and methadone, it bonds to certain receptors in the brain, blocking the pain they transmit and convincing the brain that the cravings have been satisfied. Yet somehow it does that without creating cravings for itself. Even long-term junkies who try buprenorphine simply do not want heroin anymore...
Given no choice, I tell myself that within her rejiggered brain cells, in the reconstructed network of 10 trillion nerves inside the hippocampus, the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe, she may discover different kinds of happiness. Perhaps it is oddly fulfilling--the complete use of a brain--to know only that you want to be moved from a wheelchair to a bed. Life consists of small, discrete goals that become the entire universe. Why would she not be furious with me for thwarting her vast ambition...
DIED. DAWN STEEL, 51, brash, market-savvy studio chief; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles. In her merchandising days at Penthouse, Steel learned to recognize a hot product, whether it was a phallic amaryllis plant, Gucci-labeled toilet paper (her own invention) or, later at Paramount, a movie like Flashdance or Top Gun. She was fired while giving birth to her daughter, but rebounded in true celluloid style, becoming the first woman to head a major studio: Columbia Pictures...
...rare these days for a movie not to insult your intelligence. For every 50 brain-numbing flicks like Twister, Volcano or Con Air, we might be blessed with one smart film like Pulp Fiction or Fargo. Hollywood is now in the business for the masses--"The audiences want earthquake, volcano, flood, tornado and asteroid movies, so that's what we'll give them," the studio execs smugly think to themselves...
...Haibo says he believes establishing a fair system to compete on equal ground would help check China's brain drain...