Word: brained
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Even on its tiptoes, the little creature stood hardly more than 4½ ft. tall. Its brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's. But unlike its apish kin, it had a clearly human characteristic. It could walk upright, probably as well as modern man. Its arms gathered food, warded off foes and perhaps even made primitive tools. Yet the most remarkable thing about this tiny ape-man is its age. It lived some 4 million years ago, in what is now a forbidding corner of Africa called the Afar Triangle. If its discoverers are right, this ancient biped...
...bones provide impressive new evidence for what was once a radical evolutionary idea: that our primitive ancestors learned to walk upright before they developed large brains. Though it could walk and probably even run on its hind legs, the Afar creature's cranial capacity was pitifully small, totaling no more than about 400 cc, barely a fourth of the size of the brain of Homo sapiens. The meager skeleton shows no noticeable anatomical variations from the remains of another ancestor, the famed 3.6 million-year-old "Lucy," who has been regarded until now as man's oldest direct...
...though the sequence is, does not prepare one for the marvels that follow. For Firefox is a magical airplane. It is blur-fast. It is invisible to radar. It has a shield that makes it almost impervious to enemy rockets. And a pilot can direct its weaponry with his brain waves; you think bad thoughts about the other guy, and blam! you blow him right out of the sky. It is probably true that possession of such a plane would control the cold war balance of power...
...used his early memories when he began scriptwriting: "Remember the scene in Rocky where Adrian said, 'My father told me that I wasn't born with much of a body, so I should develop my brain,' and Rocky said that it was just the opposite with him? That was me. Muscle and physique were my calling cards...
...Marjorie LeMay, associate professor of Radiology, testified recently that scans of Hinckley's brain suggest strongly that he is schizophrenic. LeMay said the CAT scan of Hinckley's brain showed it to be shrunken to an unusual degree for someone his age. The brain abnormality, she added, is found in only two percent of the normal population, but in about one-third of all schizophrenics...