Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true anorexic won't call us [EPO]," says Mihelich. "Characteristic of the disorder is a vehement denial of thinness. Their perception is skewed. They really see themselves as big when they are so painfully small. It has to do with the hypothalmus gland in the brain which is affected by starvation," says Mihelich...
State Rep. Thomas Gallagher, a candidate for U.S. Congress, spoke against a "brain drain" caused by diversion of the university's intellecutual resources away from areas like medicine and pure scientific research and into weapons development...
...first child, Nancy was injured in a traffic accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly during surgery to remove the fetus. Oxygen was inadvertently cut off, causing irreversible brain damage. Nancy Jobes has been in a coma ever since, sustained by a feeding tube in a New Jersey nursing home. John, together with Nancy's parents and siblings, wants to have the feeding tube removed, but faces a battery of legal and medical obstacles. "There is no quality...
...think on that a little. "We needed to be apart," he says finally. "At least we got it over with. We had five really good years, and the ones after that weren't so bad. Probably made better people of us. We didn't suffer any brain damage. We didn...
Evidence of the brain ban emerged early this year. A French importer complained in the Paris daily Liberation that a routine request to import the delicacy (called cervelles and served braised in France's fashionable ! restaurants) drew a protracted silence. "No one seems able to answer our requests," said the importer. Simultaneously, authorities in France's southwestern Pacific territory, New Caledonia, began rejecting other foodstuffs from New Zealand, including 500 tons of potatoes and 60 tons of beef and mutton...