Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good news: a gross-your-eyes-out horror movie that is also the year's most poignant romance. Its scientist hero, Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), is a kind of genius mutant. His mature brain percolates tomorrow's ideas, but his heart is as fragile as that of a child in a plastic bubble. He knows it too. "I don't have a life, so there's nothing for you to interfere with," he genially tells Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis), a journalist planning a story on his research into teleportation. She gives him a life -- hers -- and their tender affair seems...
...colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine: wide palate, huge rear molars, enormous cheekbones and a pronounced crest of bone running along the top of the skull. But other features -- a for- ward-thrusting muzzle, an orangutan-size brain and an apelike jaw structure -- are primitive. Leakey believes this mosaic suggests, as he has argued for years, that Johanson is wrong and that his reconstruction of afarensis is actually based on two different species. And, Leakey says, the new fossil, labeled WT 17000, resembles one of them...
...respirator should his lungs fail. Schroeder lingered in a twilight state for seven months, until last week. Family members, summoned to his bedside, initially balked at the doctors' request for a CAT scan but finally agreed. The test confirmed that a massive stroke had destroyed most of Schroeder's brain, and last rites were given...
Schroeder's troubled history, and that of other permanent Jarvik-7 patients, has led critics to call for a temporary halt in the program. Examination of some of the implanted hearts has revealed accumulations of platelets, which can contribute to blood clots in the brain, in the devices' crevices and along the path blood travels. Says Dr. Lyle Joyce, who assisted DeVries at the first Jarvik-7 implant operation on Barney Clark and is now head of the artificial-heart program at the Minneapolis Heart Institute: "It is time to wait for new modifications of the Jarvik...
...skeptical about the information, but it turns out to be crucial. Here Clancy goes off automatic pilot; there are even a few romantic interludes, as if to remind the reader that the most brilliantly designed war games must depend, sooner or later, on that unpredictable computer called the human brain...