Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Brad Konik fed freshman Craig MacDonald down to the right of the goal, MacDonald then crossed the puck to Bent, who was waiting to Konte's left, and Bent blasted it home. Even John Madden couldn't diagram it any better than that one--a sort of a tic-tac-goal...
...Damasio, including Elliot, the businessman who started behaving irrationally after surgery to remove a brain tumor. Elliot cannot behave rationally, even though his intelligence was not affected by his tumor. The part of the brain destroyed by invading tissue was in a region of the prefrontal cortex (see diagram) essential to decision making. But what Elliot lost, psychological testing revealed, was the ability to experience emotion. While the amygdala does process fear, his doctors argue from the example of Elliot and the other patients that other parts of the brain are also critical to regulating emotion...
...world, with 800,000 subscribers. "It will say, 'If you buy this whole set it will give you a 14-ft. by 22-ft. garden to go in front of a shady wall. You will have color throughout the season, and if you plant it according to the diagram, your higher plants will be in the back and the lower ones will be in the front and bang-there's your garden...
...Oklahoma City, according to federal doccuments. An FBI informant who visited Nichols' Michigan farm house in December of that year saidNichols blamed the government for the terrorist bombing of Pam Am Flight 103. He mentioned a federal building in Oklahoma City, the informant recalls, then drew a diagram of a structure similar to the Alfred P. Murrah building, explaining that "a megabomb capable of leveling a building could be built." Nichols today called the report "a total fabrication," and said he had no knowledge of the Murrah building and had never been to Oklahoma City. The informant's story...
...near epic example of the latter is The Dream of the Knight, by the Madrid painter Antonio de Pereda (1611-78). The young Don sleeps, and an angel appears in his dream with a scroll bearing a diagram of death's arrow with the motto, "It pierces eternally, flies quickly and kills." Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only...