Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology is providing sensitive nerve endings for devices like smoke detectors and blood analyzers. Meanwhile, scientists in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan are pushing hard toward a still much-in-the-future optical computer that uses photons rather than electrons for number-crunching efficiency. The massively powerful optical brain may be the only means to achieve the immense computing capacity needed for President Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars...
...most famous invention drove millions to distraction and him to the bank. Now Erno Rubik is beyond cubic. His latest brain twister, unveiled last week in Budapest, consists of eight thin 2-in. plastic squares joined by a cunning latticework of plastic threads: "Fishing line pretty much," he says. The key to Rubik's Magic Puzzle, which he has been working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace...
...thing for me is that this is certainly not a solution to a serious drug problem." San Francisco Supervisor Bill Maher, author of a bill banning all drug testing within city limits except for uniformed civil servants, mocks the craze. "I think they ought to test the urine for brain cells instead of drugs," says he. "The political leadership of urinating into a test tube eludes...
Researchers who have studied cocaine's effect on the brain believe it interferes with normal biochemical agents that control the desire for food, sex and sleep. Given a choice between food and cocaine in laboratory experiments, monkeys will become hooked on cocaine and take it until they starve to death. Humans become almost as manic. "You don't even see it coming," says Ken, a 33-year-old construction worker from the east side of Cleveland who began snorting cocaine with his wife in 1982. "We didn't think we were addicted. But once you get into...
...current favorite of college students is MDMA, better known simply as "Ecstasy." Described as the "LSD of the '80s," MDMA offers the euphoric rush of cocaine and some of the mind-expanding qualities of hallucinogens without the scary visual distortions. It may also cause permanent brain damage. Last year the Drug Enforcement Administration outlawed MDMA...