Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other women must use birth control while on it. The warnings, it seems, have not been enough. Some researchers at the Food and Drug Administration fear that the widely used drug could have caused between 900 and 1,300 babies to be born with severe birth defects, including brain damage. The FDA's concerns became public last week after the New York Times obtained a confidential agency report that raised the possibility of taking Accutane off the market...
...move, applauded by abortion foes, was prompted by a National Institutes of Health proposal to treat Parkinson's patients with fetal brain tissue, a technique used for the first time by physicians in Mexico City last January. Reaction to the moratorium ranged from outrage to cautious endorsement. "A complete ban really blocks the prospects of investigating what could be a promising medical procedure," says Dr. Robert Burke, a neurologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. A better approach, he thinks, would be to allow research in a few supervised institutions to continue while the debate on the ethical...
...brain trust represented by Harvard, one of the fine learning institutions on the globe, truly not up to finding ways of making money without doing so hand-in-hand with the Afrikaaners of South Africa...
Aside from their interest in science, these students have something else in common. Over the past three years, each of them has heard comment like "Oh, you're in physics, you must be a brain" or "Why didn't you go to MIT instead of Harvard?" or "I didn't know that Harvard had an engineering department." Coming from Harvard students, supposedly known for their well-roundedness, these remarks sound closed-minded and inane...
Freud's theory, suggested around the turn of the century, rested on the assumption that while dreaming, the brain processes information from daytime activities and releases unconscious desires through symbols during dreams. According to Freud, if a woman dreams about dancing with a rabbit, she might actually be expressing a desire to become involved with a friend named Robert, since Robert and rabbit are spelled similarly...