Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ideally, potential candidates would wait politely for their opponents to ready their platforms before launching into their own campaigns. But--as those have who have been there before say--the reality is that candidates who want a serious shot at the presidency must already have a core constituency in place when the gun goes off in mid-November...
...this core consciousness, as Damasio calls it, that registers "the feeling of what happens," and it's something we share with other intelligent animals, such as dogs. But there is another form of consciousness that embellishes one's image of self with a wealth of autobiographical detail. Damasio calls this extended consciousness, and it requires such a vast capacity for memory that it's probably special only to humans and great apes. Hence, damage to the brain's memory centers can impair a person's extended consciousness while leaving core consciousness intact...
...Damasio and his wife Hanna, his closest collaborator, such patients are windows into the brain. Their seizures, strokes and diseases, while damaging the hippocampus, leave core consciousness unimpaired. That's because it evolved much earlier than extended consciousness, Damasio says, and thus is dependent on more ancient structures, especially those located within the brain stem and hypothalamus. Among the most important: a large region called the cingulate cortex, which not only receives sensory input from the skin, muscles and internal organs but also sends out signals to initiate movement and focus attention, as when emotions send our blood pressure soaring...
...Francisco International Comedy Competition, he was also named California Probation Officer of the Year for his work with kids locked up in juvenile hall. It was the kids, in fact, who persuaded him to try stand-up comedy. If he could get laughs out of hard-core punks like them, they reasoned, he ought to go cash...
...centralized whirl. Momentum enters a field of expansion--nuclear particles seek release, and a man longs to embrace something larger than himself. Morris' keenest insights into Reagan come in such poetic metaphors, and as such, the book has disappointed and awed different audiences. Those looking for a hard-core political history of the Reagan years would be advised to look elsewhere, as Morris' aim has always, and without pretense, been to discover the character of Ronald Reagan. In this aspect, Morris presents a textured, nuanced portrait of the former president that is fair, honest and accurate...