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PUBERTY 10-13 yrs. Just before puberty, the brain's gray matter thickens, especially in the frontal lobe, the seat of planning, impulse control and reasoning. This growth may be triggered by surges of sex hormones...
ADOLESCENCE 13-20 yrs. The brain begins to shrink, losing about 2% of its weight and volume in each successive decade. Abnormally high loss of gray matter during this period may be a cause of teenage schizophrenia...
...Discovered in 1941, this hidden canyon in the Kronotsky Nature Preserve is one of the world's geothermal wonders. Rickety boardwalks snake through a hell's kitchen of bubbling mud pots in rainbow hues of ocher, pea green and blue gray; of steaming fumaroles puffing from deep crevasses; and of more than 200 geysers, some of which spout boiling water over 30 meters into the air. Similarly dramatic was the nearby Uzon Caldera, a 15-sq-km geothermal field where we bathed in a warm, sulfurous-smelling pond. As we coated ourselves with the mud, thinking "spa," our cook, Elena...
...chest was that of Pollock star Marcia Gray Harden; the occasion was a thank you on the set of her new movie. “She came over to me and said, ‘you look so cute I could put you in my bosom and keep you there,’” Ros said. So she did. “It was unbelievable,” he said of the experience...
...Moss hardly fits the mold of the pomo hipsters who currently dominate the independent film-making scene; with a modest collared shirt and a neatly trimmed beard creeping with gray, he comes off more Spielberg than Solondz...