Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downtown hotel. Here was someone relentless enough to penetrate the cocoon surrounding the most protected man on earth, someone who offered a postadolescent escape from the demands of his job and marriage. Monica fit the picture he carries around in his head of the perfect mistress: a piece of brain candy compared with the intellectually demanding Hillary, someone instantly available and experienced in juggling the special needs of a married man. With a rechargeable cell phone, no independent life and a willingness to harass Betty Currie endlessly, Monica could be dressed and over to the White House with the speed...
...could be erased by the appropriate legislation and child-rearing practices. But the differences are real, various and not easy to parse in terms of the Framer's intentions, if any. Women are more likely to be righthanded and less likely to be color-blind than men. Their brains are smaller, as befits their smaller body size, but more densely packed with neurons. Women have more immunoglobulins in their blood; men have more hemoglobin. Men are more tuned in to their internal aches and pains; women devote more regions of their brain to sadness. You do the scoring...
Drugs commonly used to break up clots and stabilize erratic heartbeats are less effective in women than in men. Hormone-replacement therapy-estrogen and progestin-has been shown to help. A U.S.-government study is currently under way that aims to clarify how estrogen works on the heart, brain and breast...
...clue to the origin of schizophrenia: kids born during late winter or in urban areas appear to be at a greater risk. What's the link? Viral infections in mothers--more likely in colder months and in densely populated areas--may have an impact on the developing fetal brain...
...regular class for free. For a fee of $75 a year, a Learning in Retirement program offers everything from calligraphy to quantum physics, taught by college professors who have retired and moved to the Ashland area. Kellogg is enrolled in a course called Secrets of the Brain. He advises, "One thing a retired person should do is exercise that gray matter above their shoulders...