Word: braine
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...having read it? Answer: Suspend him for two months without pay, then hope everyone's forgotten about it when he comes back. The Boston Globe told this rib-tickler Tuesday when it announced that top humorist Mike Barnicle, who reprinted loosely-disguised George Carlin quips from the bestselling book "Brain Droppings," would not be fired after all. Declaring that "the punishment did not fit the crime," editor Matthew Storin has withdrawn his demand for Barnicle's resignation, and replaced it with this two-month wrist-slap. Curiously, Storin's change of heart came after he met with Globe publisher Benjamin...
...Might have trouble living down couplets like "There's a killer on the road/His brain is burning like a toad...
...written statement provided to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Oliva says her mother Marie Espinoza, who was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, had bruises, bedsores and a broken pelvis within months after her 1995 arrival at the Orangetree Convalescent Hospital. Food was often left at the foot of her bed, out of her reach. She began to lose weight. "She always seemed to be starving or begging for water," says Oliva in her official account. At Extended Care Hospital, Espinoza suffered severe dehydration and bedsores. Last January she entered Palm Terrace Convalescent Center. The nursing home said...
...brain is a delicate instrument with too much complex wiring; all the data give him ferocious migraines. Yet it is the brain of this loopy mathematician (Sean Gullette) that makes him a captive of powerful groups with dark designs--some Wall Street sharpies and a coven of Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after...
Experts say a child's brain is better wired for learning new languages than an adult's, so why not give your youngster a head start? New KidSpeak software from Transparent Language offers lessons in 10 tongues for pupils ages 6 to 12 ($40). Clever animated characters like Budi (who teaches Indonesian) and Lin Lin (Mandarin Chinese) guide kids through vocabulary, counting and other games that we found are fun for grownups...