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...outward appearances, Elliot is a perfectly normal middle-aged businessman. Despite an operation a decade ago for removal of a benign brain tumor the size of a small orange, he remains intelligent and seemingly rational, with a wry sense of humor. Yet his behavior makes it clear that there is something very wrong. After years of rock-solid competence, Elliot now has trouble keeping appointments and making decisions. He has squandered much of his life savings on a series of bad investments. And, strangest of all, the very fact that his behavior is self-destructive doesn't seem to bother...
...evidence comes from nearly two dozen patients treated by 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...
DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that...
...Elliot Diringer, 37, a staff writer andeditor for the San Francisco Chronicle, said hehopes to study the environment...
Unplugged has come a long way since its humble, low-budget beginnings in 1989 with a concert featuring the band Squeeze, Syd Straw, Elliot Easton and Jules Shear. The aim then was high concept, not high ratings: a return to unvarnished, straight-from-the-artist rock after years of high-voltage, high-volume entertainment. Says Unplugged producer Alex Coletti: "There were no tricks, no effects. It was a whole reaction to the '80s and the [disgraced lip-synching pop duo] Milli Vanilli mentality. We wanted Unplugged to be as straightforward as possible...