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...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...
...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...
...agent who goes undercover as a grandmother in a Southern town. In addition to floral frocks and pearls, his wardrobe included a 40-lb. fat suit and 3 in. of rubber on his face. "He spent three hours in makeup each day," says director Raja Gosnell. "The forehead, nose and eyes are his, but he needed work on his cheeks, chin and upper lip." Does male vanity know no bounds...
...imagine," Lane says, "that you're a book, and your library has slapped a bar code right in the middle of your forehead and sent you out here...