Word: brained
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...perhaps a little old-fashioned," is not a fan of M.B.A.s. "I favor a system where you learn how to think, how to combine things, how to set priorities," he says. "The subject you studied in school doesn't mean anything. What is significant is the training of your brain. My doctorate is in logistics, and I never worked in logistics, while our head of production logistics did his doctorate in nuclear physics." What he instead values most is instinct. "But you have to train that instinct," he notes...
...specialist in tissue engineering with an emphasis on designing heart tissue, Parker said he hopes to use his expertise to find ways to save soldiers suffering from severe brain trauma...
...When an IED explodes next to an armored vehicle in Iraq or Afghanistan, the shock from the blast can cause severe brain injuries to soldiers in the immediate vicinity, even if they are in armored vehicles...
...Parker said that as an outsider to the field of brain trauma, he may be able to bring new insights to the treatment of severe brain injuries...
Chantal Sebire knows she's forcing people to make an agonizing decision, but agony is something she knows far too much about. The 52- year-old Dijon schoolteacher suffers from a rare disease that has left her disfigured by facial tumors, which will also damage her brain over time and eventually kill her. Her demand that French political leaders loosen laws against euthanasia has been rebuffed, so Sebire now awaits a judge's decision on whether existing legislation allows doctors to assist her in ending her pain-racked life. "I no longer accept this enduring pain, and this protruding...