Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been written for centuries that thinking is important," she says, "but that is a lot different from saying, 'I have a method of showing how to do that.' " She wanted to teach children how to think creatively and critically, to use both the analytical left side of the brain and the more intuitive right side, to improve both verbal and nonverbal communication. In five years, her school swelled from 40 students to 200, at $60 per week each...
...Feynman, 66, is a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who talks like a New York City cabby, plays the bongo drums and, to judge from his uninhibited autobiography, thinks as much of his ability to crack safes as he does of his genius for breaking cosmic codes. As part of the brain trust that made the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, Feynman amused himself during quiet desert nights by entering colleagues' offices and picking the locks meant to guard nature's most destructive secrets. Since 1951 he has opened thousands of young minds as a professor at the California Institute of Technology...
When Feynman asserts that we live in an unscientific age, he means there is a scarcity of rational thought about the technological forces that have shaped the modern world. He was there at the creation. His enlisted-man's version of brain-storming days at Los Alamos seizes the spirit of the place with typical zest and informality: "What (Hans) Bethe needed was someone to talk to, to push his ideas against. Well, he comes in to this little squirt in an office and starts to argue, explaining his idea. I say, 'No, no, you're crazy...
According to Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, the stroke may have been the result of the constriction of cerebral blood vessels, possibly weakened by Schroeder's diabetes. Another possibility: an artery to his brain may conceivably have become blocked by a clot that formed on a valve in Schroeder's mechanical heart. By week's end, according to Lansing, Schroeder had made a "brilliant" recovery...
...renovations down there. And in Harvard Square, the gift has been given--Walkers can walk, cars can be driven. The subway construction they say is all done, But that's what they said back in Seventy-one. And closest to home, we wish Mr. Sandman, For Partrick Sorrento and Brain, our pressman. While upstairs amid all the business details. Tidy books for Liz, for Curtis fewer night mails...