Word: brains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine craving. In tests this year, six of 13 people taking the drug stopped using cocaine and the remaining seven reduced their intake about two-thirds. Researchers got the idea for using this antiseizure drug after hearing reports that low doses of cocaine triggered mini-seizures in some animal brains and that this "kindling" in the brain might be linked to craving. By next year, NIDA expects to have eight to twelve antiaddiction medications in clinical trials...
...Nancy Cruzan's car swerved on an icy and deserted Missouri country road. The car flipped and crashed. The 25-year-old woman tumbled out and landed facedown in a ditch. Medical help arrived promptly enough to save her life but not fast enough to save her oxygen-deprived brain...
Invented by Robert Cahlander and David Carroll of the Robot Aided Manufacturing Center in Red Wing, Minn., the robot has a 400-lb. arm that dispenses discs, makes change and processes credit-card purchases. Its computer brain also tracks inventory and cues up tunes for customers who punch their requests on a keyboard. The designers may franchise an army of the devices. Behind every great robot, of course, there is a human -- in this case a worker who drops by once a week to replenish the stock and collect the receipts. And maybe, says Carroll, "clean the glass with...
...Campbell 1-0--2; Dana Smith 1-0--2; Mal Hollensteiner 1-2--4; Ralph James 3-9--15; Tchad Robinson 3-0--6; Peter Condakes 1-1--3; Eric Carter 1-0--2; Mike Minor 3-0--6; Matt McClain 0-0--0; Ian Smith 0-0--0; Brain Macker...
...standards of just a few years ago." To Paul Mellon, long the Maecenas of Washington's National Gallery of Art, "everything important is ridiculously expensive . . . I just refuse to pay these absurd prices." And as the museum's buying power fades, public experience of art is impoverished, and the brain drain of gifted young people from curatorship into art dealing accelerates...