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Those physicians able to function did so heroically. They could not know that they would be the first medical experts to observe a new disease, the third effect, after heat and blast, of Little Boy. On Tuesday an official of the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima discovered that the X-ray plates stored in a basement vault that had survived the blast and a fire had all been exposed. The atomic bomb had spread radiation throughout central Hiroshima, with lingering, lethal effects on its survivors that would not be fully understood for years...
...distant ancestors emerged from the sea: it's probably wrong. For one thing, newly assembled fossils -- in particular, a 360 million-year-old salamander-like aquatic animal called Acanthostega -- strongly suggest that toes and feet were developed before life climbed onto land, not after. Moreover, in shape and function, Acanthostega's fully jointed toes bear no resemblance to the spiky, fanlike fins of a fish. Scientists believe they understand how a fish's gills evolved into an amphibian's lungs. But how did fins turn into feet like these...
...emerging is far more complex. The University of Iowa's Damasio, along with his wife Hanna, also a neurologist, has recently constructed a model for how the brain processes language based on some 200 unusual case histories, most prominent among them a patient code-named Boswell. Boswell has no function in large areas of his brain, owing to an infection. One consequence is that he has no memory of recent events. Nonetheless, he is able to speak and understand language perfectly well-up to a point...
...until all Union learned of the abuse, however, did Bev and Linda split up. In February he moved in with an aunt, and in April he abruptly resigned from the state Republican executive committee, stating in part, "I'm at the point where I can hardly function as a committeeman. I wish all this would pass ... My brains are not functioning properly." In April, Russell also released the following statement: "I am responsible for and ashamed of what happened. I appreciate the fact that some of my friends and family have tried to speak up in my defense. But they...
...problem for the gander, however. The relative lack of cross talk between their hemispheres may actually benefit men by allowing each half of the brain to concentrate on what it does best. Studies have shown that when men are confronted with problems that deal with spatial orientation -- a function that can be handled by both the left and right hemispheres -- they tend to use the right hemisphere only. Thus there aren't many distracting messages coming in from the left hemisphere, which concentrates on language. This cerebral division of labor could also explain why there are so many more male...