Word: brained
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...balanced the Russian budget and enabled the government to take unprecedented initiatives, which Putin mentioned in his address. As billions of petrochemical dollars pour into the nation's coffers, he seeks to reinvigorate its scientific base. The down-at-heels research institutes are to receive immense subsidies, and the brain drain of scientists to America is to be blocked off. Putin wants the state to play its traditional role of picking which industrial sectors to advance. He has plumped for nanotechnology, betting that Russia can quickly become much more than a seller of its natural resources. Like China and India...
...1980s he refined a technique called microlensing, allowing scientists a more textured view of the galaxy. In the '90s he and a team of Polish researchers established a sweeping--and ongoing--project to capture all celestial activity and record rare events like killer asteroids. He was 67 and had brain cancer...
...just plunk a piano,” she says. “He’s really interested in getting a performance out of performers.”Musico’s view of music stems largely from his studies, he says. As a Philosophy concentrator on the Mind, Brain and Behavior track, he has taken classes related to musical cognition. In one class, he studied the neuroprocesses of music and emotion. Similarly, he enrolled in a psychology seminar on music and the mind.“In my seminar, I learned that music is an aesthetic experience, but also...
...line: “You dropped your pen. Yes, you did. Here it is.” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Last summer, I told my 8-9 yr old campers a 30-minute bedtime story about how I had had a brain aneurysm and now sometimes I see people without mouths, bleeding from the eyes and screaming. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: In middle school, I went through a “gargoyles” phase during which I amassed a large collection of books, posters, and over...
...violent madman. Forbess is alternately psychotic, malicious, and seductive. Indisputably the star of a talented four-person cast, she is Martha: from the sneer on her face to the garish bray of her laugh. The couple’s repertoire vividly etches itself into one’s brain through the screamed, snarled, spat—anything but spoken—dialogue...