Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Positive" and "Improving Relationships." Psychologist Nanolla Yazdani leads spirited talks on psychology and decision making. "You have the guts to break the law," he admonishes. "I want you to have the guts to break your bad habits too." Says he: "The closest thing to what we do is a brain transplant...
Although only one subject was involved in this study, the project did provide new evidence of what affects a person's circadian pacemaker, the part of the brain that sets the biological clock, coordinating hormone and chemical changes with the external environment, according to Charles A. Czeisler, the study's primary investigator and an assistant professor of biology...
...taking the chicken run," as South Africans derisively call it. Last year immigration into South Africa fell 40%, while the number of those leaving the country rose by one- third. Among the emigres are a disproportionate number of engineers, accountants, educators and physicians, whose departures constitute a serious brain drain. The most popular destination is Britain, where many have relatives. The runner-up is Australia, to which the South Africans have been flocking in such numbers that they have been dubbed the "new boat people." Quite a few who arrived in South Africa from white-ruled Rhodesia have decided...
...dropped by" the State Department to view a collection of Soviet and other East bloc weapons captured from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The point was made. Reagan overrides the print press and captures the electronic image-making tools. The image, without the mediation of language, feeds directly into the brain. Reagan goes directly into the American bloodstream, the American consciousness...
...drug can act in a number of ways to cause death. It can interfere with the electrical system of the heart or brain, causing the heart to go into ventricular fibrillation, a purposeless twitching that quickly results in death. In addition, cocaine may bring on a cardiac event by temporarily constricting arteries...