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This interesting dichotomy may scare away some of the shows more “intellectual” viewers, but, as MacFarlane himself states: “There is that base of the brain thing, you hear a fart joke and you can’t help but laugh.” It’s tough to disagree...
DIED. Pelle Lindbergh, 26, last season's top goaltender in the National Hockey League, most valuable player for the Philadelphia Flyers and member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic hockey team; from severe brain and spinal-cord injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
...dragon's heat. China is at once an old friend, a potential foe, a buyer, a seller, an alien nation and a muse. It's the face and spirit of globalization: Australia's distant factory floor and an endless market for the country's minerals, gas, technology and brain power. China's soft power is seeping into Australia's cities, suburbs and remote corners. It's changed the nation, and continues to change it. Yet the transformation has attracted surprisingly little attention. Just where is this silken revolution heading...
Perhaps you’ve seen them too, as you wandered up the cafeteria stairs of Quincy House to get yourself yet another typical brain break meal of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They are a distinctly un-preppy, counter-Harvard-culture (un-Harvard might not be specific enough) set of musicians, who hang out by the mailboxes either with an acoustic guitar in hand, a drumstick behind each ear, or a plastic pick, pinched between two pierced lips...
Most of the time, swelling is merely an annoyance, Almond said. But in the brain, where the skull gives cells little room to expand, it can become a problem. Almond noted that in “very rare instances,” increased pressure in the brain caused by swelling can lead to confusion, altered mental status, seizures, coma, or death...