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...project of Dr. Jay Giedd (pronounced Geed), chief of brain imaging in the child psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. Giedd, 43, has devoted the past 13 years to peering inside the heads of 1,800 kids and teenagers using high-powered magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For each volunteer, he creates a unique photo album, taking MRI snapshots every two years and building a record as the brain morphs and grows. Giedd started out investigating the developmental origins of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism ("I was going alphabetically," he jokes) but soon discovered that...
...1980s, Kaus concludes, lies in the size of the public sphere. The ever-decreasing frequency of interactions between individuals from different backgrounds has nearly destroyed social equality. More and more, Americans equate salary earned with intrinsic worth, and so a shrinking public sphere allows snobbery and status envy to geed upon income differences...
Tell-Tale. In Tell City, Ind., Silver Raley advertised that he was "doing hauling of any kind with old, geed up, no good 1½ ton truck when it runs . . . charges are plenty high." Illusionists. The National Beauty and Barber Manufacturers' Association chided the U.S. Census Bureau for underestimating by some 33,000 the number of U.S. beauty shops...
Television, whoaed, geed and hawed from season to season by the Federal Communications Commission, broke out of its experimental hobbles last week. With a giddap from FCC, it took a few tentative commercial steps. It looked pretty spavined...
...Marshall Geed has been elected permanent captain of the Princeton freshman football eleven...