Word: braining
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...against the arch-rival Bulldogs would surely rid the team of its early season frustrations. But Brain Tompkins' Yale squad is strong at 2-2-1, and they are hungry after losses to Milwaukee and Connecticut. Yale, too, has had its offensive frustrations. After opening the season strongly, the Bulldogs have scored only one goal in their last two games...
...French surgeons on Wednesday wrote another page of science fiction into the medical books by sewing a dead man's hand onto a living patient. A multinational team of doctors working in Lyon spent three and a half hours transplanting the hand and part of an arm from a brain-dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using a circular saw while incarcerated in a New Zealand jail...
...good news is that not all brain-dead computers are created equal. Hewlett-Packard had the best rating in the survey; its computers worked on startup 92 percent of the time. By contrast, 17 percent of AST users had a bad out-of-box experience. Interestingly enough, AST users, while reporting the most initial problems, were also the least likely to call tech support -- a level of diminished expectations that may explain how PC makers can ship nonfunctional products and still make the big bucks...
Hallowell said previous theories about stressand the workplace--in which "flogging the brain"was thought to increase productivity--have beenreassessed by scholars recently. On the"performance anxiety curve," after a certain pointon the graph, more stress correlates with lesscompleted work, not more...
Trouble is, pumped-up testosterone levels can prove counterproductive. The body has lots of different feedback loops that generally keep it from making too much of any one compound. If testosterone levels stay high for a long time, a chemical switch in the brain is tripped that signals the testes to stop making the hormone. That can cause them to shrink and may make it difficult for users to produce their own testosterone naturally. As if that weren't enough, excess testosterone can accelerate the growth of prostate tumors that might otherwise have taken years to form...