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...morning is about as pleasant as being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard on the radio the day before. Maybe it was Ace of Base? Dates, facts, basic grammatical constructions, all sneak out of your brain like rats following the tune of the Pied Piper. Or was it the Three Little Pigs...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: 9:15 Is Just Too Early | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...through the roof of his mouth and into his skull. Amazingly, Lawler didn't realize anything was amiss until six days later when he went to a dentist with what he thought was a nagging toothache. It took surgeons four hours to extract the nail, which had penetrated his brain. The uninsured Lawler is expected to make a full recovery but now must contend with the headache of a $100,000 medical bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! That's Gotta Hurt! | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...been colored in hues of rose, giving an ethereal tone to its tale of the plans for building a shopping center at the World Trade Center site and the ghosts that haunt it. One story, "The Future," about a time when email will be downloaded directly into your brain and coffee cups will have interactive features about celebrities, appears in a crude, early draft style that reveals how much goes into a finished piece. (As a result it's the weak link of the collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Moved Your Damn Cheese! | 1/20/2005 | See Source »

...biological interpretation [of the gender gap] to hold, it is necessary that both of the following assumptions be true,” the authors write on page 41. “[First,] the relationship between the measured aspects of brain functioning and math/science achievement is causal. [Second,] gender differences in thee aspects of brain functioning are biologically biased...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sociologist Cited By Summers Calls His Talk ‘Uninformed’ | 1/19/2005 | See Source »

...Dutch report in the Archives of Internal Medicine highlighted another problem with the pills: abnormal bleeding. Patients taking drugs that strongly inhibit reuptake of serotonin-a neurotransmitter that aids both mood and blood clotting-were at least twice as likely to be hospitalized for bleeding in the brain, uterus and other sites than patients taking weaker drugs. So-called SSRIs, including Prozac and Paxil, were among the strongest drugs. The risk is small, however, and most serious for patients already at elevated risk for bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

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