Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phnom Penh, and you come upon a former girls' school, bare except for the rusted beds on which Pol Pot's men interrogated victims, and the U.S. munitions cans they used as toilets. Display cases are littered with the hoes and shovels and iron staves they used to brain people to death; along the walls, hundreds upon hundreds of black-and-white faces stare back at you, dazed or terrified, recalling the people, often children and often themselves Khmer Rouge executioners, who were executed here. One large wall is dominated by a map of Cambodia made up entirely of skulls...
Vinson has taken Lance to psychologists and neurologists, who have tried half a dozen drugs, including Ritalin. Nothing has worked. "His mouth," she says, "goes 10 times faster than his brain." Counselors say Lance's violent tantrums are learned behavior. He knows that acting out wins him attention...
...indeed a well-known fact that Cornel West is one of the best communicators on earth," said April Yvonne Garrett, a former student. "As a student, I always felt like my brain was being fed the finest information in the universe. I was always amazed that he could communicate the most difficult concepts so that the average person could understand them and apply them," she said...
...meaning is more, well, meaningful. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, after all, explores how the human mind affects machines. Anomalies is the key word: something different, abnormal, peculiar or not easily classified. In this case, they are the elusive powers of consciousness. Can the emanations of the brain really make the copier malfunction? Or maybe turn on the lights or even cause airplanes to fall from the sky? And if the mind is capable of affecting sensitive machinery, what benefits--and pitfalls--await when this energy is harnessed to an emerging catalog of new applications and products...
...little craft was accelerated by a futuristic ion-propulsion engine that provided gentle but continuous thrust. And for much of its mission the ship operated somewhat independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...