Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connect the brain's visual system arrange themselves in striking layers and columns that reflect the division between the left eye and the right. But these axons start out as scrambled as a bowl of spaghetti, according to Michael Stryker, chairman of the physiology department at the University of California at San Francisco. What sorts out the mess, scientists have established, is neural activity. In a series of experiments viewed as classics by scientists in the field, Berkeley's Shatz chemically blocked neural activity in embryonic cats. The result? The axons that connect neurons in the retina...
...hands on. Celebrity sightings at clinics and youth shelters are, for the most part, rare. "We try to provide children with a calm, soothing place, not chaotic, star-studded events," says Leslie Johnson of the Westside Children's Center in Culver City, California. "Besides, children under three have different ideas about celebrity. When Barney came to our Christmas party, Jim Carrey could have been standing there and no one would have noticed...
...wrongful-death civil trial of O.J. Simpson sputtered toward conclusion last week in Santa Monica, California, a key issue that hung over the courtroom was money. With Simpson's camp openly proclaiming he is out of cash, many observers were left wondering what the plaintiffs stood to gain...
...those who haven't yet caught his hilarious shtick, Connerly is the Sacramento businessman and University of California regent who last year spearheaded the campaign for Proposition 209. Maybe it's just my twisted sense of humor, but Connerly has been cracking me up ever since he agreed to chair that anti-affirmative-action crusade. I laughed out loud when I heard that in 1991 this man who says that his hatred for racial preferences is so intense it "seeps out of every pore" had registered his consulting firm as a black-owned business in order to keep state contracts...
...meet these demands, Simpson has liquidated almost everything he owned before his arrest in June 1994: condominiums in New York City and California; property in Mexico; his 50% interest in a string of HoneyBaked Ham franchises; even his Ferrari Mondial and the infamous Ford Bronco. What he hasn't sold outright he has mortgaged to the hilt: he borrowed $3 million against his Rockingham home and used a Warhol serigraph of himself as security for a loan he took from his children's estate. He has tapped his homeowner's insurance to pay for his defense in the civil trial...