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While I've always enjoyed a whirl down the Highland St. hill on my Flexible Flyer, my idea of a good time stops short of broken bones and cranial concussions...
...Bronowski's "personal view" of the development of civilization, carries the gloomy foreboding that the viewer may be in for a three-month brush-up course in anthropology-no bad thing, perhaps, but not an exciting prospect either. Bronowski in Ethiopia's Omo Valley musing over the cranial capacity of our earliest ancestors, Bronowski reflecting on the first stirrings of the artistic impulse before the cave paintings at Altamira -it is all ground that other popularizers have covered. Though he makes an engagingly earnest guide, other cultured minds have already taken short trips over the same territory...
...October 1972, two white youths--Lawrence Largey and Thomas Doyle--were placed under arrest by several Cambridge police officers. Within hours, Lawrence Largey was found dead in his cell. A subsequent autopsy disclosed recently inflicted internal and cranial injuries...
...Large numbers of Westerners have come to accept the idea that acupuncture can help alleviate pain. But doctors have expressed doubts about another claim advanced for the ancient Oriental art: needle wielding can relieve nerve deafness, a hearing loss caused by damage to the cranial nerve that serves the ear. Their skepticism has been bolstered by two new reports...
Initially, some brain researchers believed that memories were stored in electrical impulses. But scientists could not comprehend how a cranial electrical system, however complex its interconnections, could accommodate the estimated million billion pieces of information that a single brain collects in a lifetime...