Word: cerebrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the controversy, it is as if inflation had not been bested, the interest-rate genie not stuffed back into the bottle. The exuberant entrepreneurship that created 630,000 new businesses and 11 million new jobs is forgotten, as if the thought had never darkened the detached cerebrum of the Hollywood has-been. The truth is that Reagan's unabashed enthusiasm for competition, risk and profit has given the managers of U.S. capitalism enough new spirit to carry the message right through to the next President, be he Democrat or Republican. Prosperity has been no mere conjurer's trick...
...depression which my grandparents could never have induced, and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat. I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom. I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing my self-respect in the process. Once my fit of self-contempt subsided, I took steps to register as a sophomore...
...depression which my grandparent could never have induced and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing my self-respect in the process Once my fit of self-contempt subsided, I took steps to register as a sophomore...
Despite the difficulties, scientists have been trying to devise ways of evaluating animal intelligence. So far, none of them works perfectly. One theory holds that the bigger the brain size in proportion to the body and the more creased the cerebrum portion, the brighter the animal. But, notes Beck, "the human cerebral cortex occupies no greater a proportion in the human brain than in any other primate...
...brain structure and nervous system of the cat are also special. The divided feline cerebrum offers tantalizing clues to right-brain, left-brain investigations. The highly developed feline "flight-fight" mechanism may provide insights to the response in humans. So useful are cats that tens of thousands of them disappear into the nation's labs for experiments each year. Although researchers have studied cat brains with infinite care, none have discovered the secret of the cat's singular sound. The apparatus and meaning of purring remain a mystery of feline behavior, one of many unexplained traits that remain...