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...brains of 15 former fighters who had died of natural causes. Corsellis observed a striking pattern of cerebral changes rarely found in those who were not boxers. Subsequent studies have shown that boxers are far more likely than non-fighters to have a condition called cavum septi pellucidi-a cave, or space, between two membranes that divide the brain...
...Splash, Actress Daryl Hannah, 23, made waves by playing a girl who was part human, part fish. For her next role, Hannah has moved up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah...
...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
...employees because of Reagan's budget cuts, and work has been completed on only 120 of the nation's 7,000 hazardous waste sites since he took office. Said Adrienne Weissman of the Sierra Club: "He must think we've been living in a cave, while he has waged a 3½ -year war on the environment." For the first time in its 14-year history, the League of Conservation Voters, a political-action committee with representatives from major environmental groups, will spend money on a presidential campaign; it has lined up $200,000 worth of radio...
...nuts. We want to live in both worlds." He said the cave was an eighth of a mile long and had "nice vaulted ceilings...