Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mystery illness that sent Kaczynski to the hospital when he was only 10 months old could take on new significance. Some researchers believe that schizophrenia could come from a virus that strikes pregnant mothers and infants, causing brain damage that usually doesn't become fully apparent until the teens or early 20s. Kaczynski's family has said he was always an antisocial child and that his behavior got worse as he got older. At 26, he abruptly resigned from a prestigious teaching post at the University of California, Berkeley, and dropped out of society. The first Unabom attack occurred three...
However it happens, scientists know that acupuncture produces measurable changes in the brain. Some of the most compelling evidence presented last week was a series of brain scans taken by Dr. Abass Alavi, chief of nuclear medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Alavi's images showed dramatic changes in regions of the central nervous system that coordinate the perception of pain. "Acupuncture definitely changed the landscape of pain we see in the brain," Alavi told the panel...
...Matthew was dying. We couldn't believe it. It was all inconceivable, and it was beyond us to comprehend that our Matty was dying because someone we trusted had hurt him." She recalled in stark detail the hopelessness of the situation: her son, who was on life support, was brain dead. On Feb. 9, she said, "we made the most painful decision in our lives. We had to let Matty go, be free of this life's pain." And then it was Louise Woodward's turn to speak. The night before, a jury of nine women and three...
...that's what you want," and my balloon went pfffffffffft. I did the concert, and the words to Solidarity Forever were there in the program, and the audience sang all four verses lustily, including, "They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn./ But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn./ We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom, when we learn/ That the union makes us strong...
...family story is one of distinction and poignant drama. Her great-grandfather H.H. Asquith was Prime Minister in the very years (1908-16) when so many of her films are set. Her father, a Harvard business school graduate, was a successful banker until, after an operation for a benign brain tumor, he suffered a paralyzing stroke. Helena has her looks from her mother, a psychotherapist of Franco-Spanish-Austro-Russian-Jewish ancestry. She lived with her parents until she was 30, when she bought an apartment a few minutes from their London home. "I'm not stretching the umbilical cord...