Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delivery of her second child Elin was a breeze for Jennifer Daniels, 30, but since then nothing has been simple. Elin suffers from meningomyelocele, which has paralyzed her below the waist and could cause brain damage. After consulting several doctors, who painted a gloomy picture of Elin's future, the parents refused to authorize any operations. The likely consequences: death within two years. Variety Children's Hospital in Miami, where Elin was staying, asked a local court to allow an operation. Last week, after a hearing that featured a former March of Dimes poster child smiling...
Today's artisans can trim metal to within one ten-thousandth of an inch, using mechanical cuts more precise than the strokes of the finest brain surgeon. During a grueling four-year apprenticeship in vocational classrooms and on the shop floor, the toolmaker absorbs the principles of solid geometry and learns to think in three dimensions. He is expected to read labyrinthine blueprints as well as be aware of the exact levels of heat and pressure that will cause various metals to buckle and break...
Perhaps the best reason for writing a letter is to get rid of it, to take the words that have been lolling about the brain like summertime teenagers, and putting them to work. But here we come full circle. For, as experience proves, one is not rid of the words by writing them. Too often they boomerang, are snagged in the wind and snap back with amazing ferocity...
MARRIED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, best-selling author (The Dragons of Eden, Broca 's Brain) and host of the PBS-TV series Cosmos; and Ann Druyan, 31, novelist and co-writer of the Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie...
...heart attacks and strokes. "Decades ago, there were two schools of thought," says Dr. Robert Levy, director of the N.H.L.B.I. "One said that high blood pressure should be lowered, and the other said that it can be protective [that is, needed to supply more blood to organs like the brain]. Now we know that it's very important that we treat it." Nearly 35 million Americans, one of every four adults (more in blacks), have chronically elevated blood pressure, but most are not aware of it. Hypertension often has no characteristic symptoms, hence its tag "the silent killer...