Word: foreheads
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...confidence in the Bush camp. The other ray of sunshine for the Bush camp? Al Gore, who also supports the death penalty, has kept his mouth shut as Bush struggles with this issue, a sure sign the vice president wants nothing to do with the debate. When Gore makes forehead-slapping declarations like "We must be careful not to kill innocent people," he's really saying, "I remember what this did to Mike Dukakis...
...called the hippocampus (after the Latin word for seahorse because of its arching shape). Acting as a kind of neurological scratch pad, the hippocampus stores the engrams temporarily until they are transferred somehow (perhaps during sleep) to permanent storage sites throughout the cerebral cortex. This area, located behind the forehead, is often described as the center of intelligence and perception. Here, as in the hippocampus, the information is thought to reside in the form of neurological scribbles, clusters of connected cells...
Strauss hands the narrating chores to Eng, the twin on the right-hand side of the pair, who gradually emerges as a convincingly persuasive and heroic presence--intelligent (he reads Shakespeare while Chang sleeps, sometimes resting the book on his brother's forehead) and refreshingly matter-of-fact about his preposterous physical fate...
...Studies of adult soccer players have found that deficits in concentration, attention and memory were more common than in non-soccer players. Research with kids is ongoing, but the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that coaches and parents train children to try to hit the ball slightly above the forehead, where skulls are thickest. Emphasis on the word...
...solidity of middle age, a gravitas, with even an air of the august. But I think of Dan the way he was when I first knew him at Harvard - thin, handsome, dashing in a Slavic style, with high cheekbones and curly brown hair brushed back from his high forehead, and a moustache, and the air of a 19th-century cavalry officer, a Cossack, or, possibly, the leader of a New York City street gang. He had in him the lightest touch of the thug (he had learned to handle himself as a greenhorn kid in New Jersey, fresh...