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...public perception of children like me was that they were disobedient, lazy, stubborn or incorrigible. In school my teachers constantly scolded and punished me, and my classmates taunted me for my inability to read, to pronounce properly, to mix [socially]. I could not figure what was wrong with my brain. I only learned what my disorders were when I attended law school at Leeds University in Britain. Even though the drugs to combat these disorders are experimental, they give affected kids a chance to lead a normal life. These unfortunate children have to be brave and strong. To them...
What Grimes did not know was that shrapnel had penetrated all the way to the back of Colgan's head. By the time the chopper reached the hospital, Colgan was brain-dead. He was kept alive by a respirator while Rabena, who had driven to the hospital with Ilardi, completed paperwork that promoted him to first lieutenant and gave him a "medical retirement"--a step that allows his family to receive more generous benefits. Ilardi kissed Colgan on the chest. "We won't give up the chase," he said...
...little wine with dinner was good for our health. But a new study may spoil our pleasure. It found that moderate alcohol intake (one or two drinks a day) did not lower middle-aged drinkers' risk of having a stroke, as previously reported, and may actually cause the brain to shrink. Maybe the StairMaster is better than that second glass of wine after...
...movie isn?t much, but Kelley nicely conveys a doomed man?s look and walk, as if he?s wearing invisible shackles. His voiceover has the voluptuous tone of a bad dream, or bad pulp writing: ?It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed... My stomach was riding a roller coaster... I was scared sick.? The film stretches its minuscule budget with effects like showing murder in Vince?s eyes - literally: the camera closes in, Kelley?s eye sockets turn black and we see the nightmare killing in them. Writer-director Shane would remake this film in 1956 as ?Nightmare...
...appropriately and didn’t return to this end of the tank. Dowling says he wondered whether the fish just didn’t remember the cocaine correctly. He theorized that the defect might be a result of mutations in genes affecting signaling between the retina and the brain...