Word: braine
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Forst and classmate Brain Ralph lead the way, Forst batting .409 with 61 hits and Ralph, despite missing a chunk of the season, hitting .373 with nine home runs and 32 RBI. Ralph is only one long ball away from tying Harvard's all-time record for homers in a season...
With Kay Denhardt, the reasons for getting online were not financial; they were physical. Four years ago, she had surgery for a brain tumor. Afterward, Denhardt, now 56, wanted information she couldn't find in her hometown of Newark, Ohio. "It was really hard for me at first after surgery," Denhardt says. "I had memory problems. I lost my hearing, and some of my face atrophied. Doctors don't tell you about things like that." When her daughter Teresa moved home to help, she introduced her mom to the Internet. Denhardt searched the Web, learning about new drugs and joining...
...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Dr. Mark Malkin is working with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...
...Composure" lies in Norretranders' seamless melding of science with simple anecdotes. The User Illusion is a very comprehensive treatise, exploring consciousness in the reading of Greek epic poems, in musical performance and in the hitting of a baseball; also included are discussions of nuclear warfare, as are the requisite brain diagrams and reaction graphs...
...already been done on monkeys. Now brain surgeon Dr. Robert White says total body transplants could soon be done on humans. The operation, White told ABC News, involves attaching the functioning body of a brain-dead head to the functioning head of a dying body. To sort through both the benefits and problems of this pioneering procedure, we offer a simple, celebrity-friendly test drive...