Word: braining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While all four students were drawn to health care policy, Ackerly's interest was more personal: in high school, he went through several brain surgeries...
William K. Moss '99 of Leverett House, who will finish the program this year, says, "The Boston public schools could definitely use some great minds. There is a brain drain in our nation, and Harvard students could do a great deal to alleviate that...In general the great minds of our nation are drawn to more lucrative careers...Instead, I wish that students who obtain world class educations, like the one Harvard offers, would consider sharing their mental wealth with the next generation...
...bobby-soxer at a Sinatra concert, and on some level, they're right. I loved that he constantly surprised me, not just with his antics, but with his candor and his wit. I loved the way he scratched his nose when he was uncomfortable. I loved to watch his brain work, never able to predict what he would do next...
...study expands on the idea that after a stroke occurs, certain brain cells that are not killed immediately by bursting blood vessels may be killed through exposure to compounds released by dying cells...
...investigators mixed cultured brain cells with an ERK-blocking drug, PD098059, and induced seizures in the cells (seizures are also thought to utilize excess glutamate to promote death in neighboring cells). They found that when the ERK was blocked, the cells were safe from deadly glutamate exposure...