Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents of a brain-damaged child and the owners of the hospital the parents accused of malpractice in the little girl's birth have agreed that a fair reparation for her condition is $4.2 million down, $7000 a month for the rest of her life...
...half years ago Linda Ferris underwent Caesarean section, in the birth of a daughter, Andrea, at the Pasadena Bayshore Hospital. During the birth, the Ferrises claimed, Andrea suffered the oxygen deprivation that caused her to become permanently brain-damaged; according to doctors, she will remain at the mental and physical level of a two-year-old for the rest of her life, which could be 75 more years...
...around him, a power he shares, it turns out, with his mother and great-grandfather. What this means, in practice, is that mystery becomes unnecessary. Whenever one character wonders what another is thinking or feeling, telepathy comes instantly to the rescue. Different people are simply parcels of the same brain, one that usually resembles Norman Mailer's. Menenhetet I often sounds like the world's oldest existentialist: "Look for the risk. We must obey it every time. There is no credit to be drawn from the virtue of one's past." This figure has given much thought...
Freeman himself should be wary, for he continues to subscribe to the belief that the human brain and body at birth are analogous to a computer fully equipped with programs and waiting only for experience to supply them with variables. In fact, recent studies have shown that the structure and development of both the brain and body are significantly affected by post-natal experience...
...loot was handed out last month in Key West at the offices of Treasure Salvors Inc., the outfit that found the hoard on the ocean bottom. Three years ago, the investors, ranging from a California brain surgeon to a Florida auto dealer, paid $20,000 for each of the 35 units in a unique tax-shelter limited partnership. The deal was the brainstorm of an ebullient New Jersey tax-shelter specialist, Jerry Burke, 50. The money entitled the investors-partners to 17.5% of anything recovered during 1980 from the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita. That ship and a sister ship...