Word: haire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part about working for Bill Clinton used to be his "purple rages"--violent bursts of room-shaking anger that could drain the blood from the face of even the most confident aide. Back then, Clinton's emotional engagement in his presidency could be measured by the intensity of his hair-trigger temper...
...shoulder-length hair bouncing, Steve Pinker strides into the lecture hall like a rock star taking center stage. He flings his leather jacket over the back of a chair, fingers some chords on an electronic keyboard and flicks on his microphone. Over the next hour and a half, Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will treat 325 undergraduates to a series of demonstrations highlighting design glitches in that evanescent thing we call the mind...
...therefore part of behavioral cause and effect (well, Hitler had an unhappy childhood, therefore ...), then it does not deserve the name of evil. Which, the theologian replies, is nonsense: the person who did the deed may be a victim himself or may have merely been having a bad-hair day, as someone remarked in trying to figure out Susan Smith's murder of her children in a South Carolina lake. But the deed is, indelibly, evil...
...HAIR RAZER Though researchers can't explain why, vaccinations in very rare instances seem to have a disturbing side effect: hair loss. Usually the locks return, but in a few cases patients are left nearly bald...
...find it my duty either to continue to tell people about them or to honor them in my work. People who do good work have a certain glow; for instance, someone like Audrey Hepburn got more and more beautiful, right to her death. I just braid my hair. I haven't done anything about the gray...