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Word: functionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment. Seeing her falter, the entire family got up from their seats and rushed to surround her--Ted Kennedy, her children, cousins. They hugged her, and laughed and made cheerful sounds, like birds. Soon she was laughing too. It was as if the Kennedys have learned to function like a biological organism, have developed a collective reflex to deal with pain as best they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Homeward Angel, Once Again | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...doesn't the hand grenade go off every time you swing a golf club? Coordinated muscle function. That's what enables John Daly to hit 1,000 practice balls a week with a swing speed exceeding 130 m.p.h. "An uncoordinated swing is much more likely to hurt the spine," Watkins says. "Pros don't generate these peak torques on their spine like the amateur does, because of coordinated muscle function. They can still get in trouble, because they do it 10,000 times. But it's not because they don't have the coordinated muscle strength to protect their backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sports Medicine: A Back-Saving Golf Swing | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Otherwise, however, Taylor said the un-merged Radcliffe can function in many of the same ways it will be able to function once the agreement is completed...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Merger Deadline Passes | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Finally, in 1996, Harvey gave much of his data and a significant fraction of the tissue itself to Dr. Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist who maintains a "brain bank" at McMaster for comparative studies of brain structure and function. These normal, undiseased brains, willed to science by people whose intelligence had been carefully measured before death, gave Witelson a solid set of benchmarks against which to measure the seat of Einstein's brilliant thoughts. To make the comparison as valid as possible, Witelson and her team compared Einstein's tissues with those of men close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Einstein's Brain Built for Brilliance? | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...learning" the placement of walls and natural barriers, such as piles of discarded newspapers), I could automatically recall it to my office. From then on, it was a simple task to dispatch Cye whenever necessary. I could even have harassed Stein on the hour by invoking a handy timer function in the software. Satisfied that I'd made my point, though, I stood down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Real R2D2? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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