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...potency out of controversies with which the G.O.P. would like to beat the Clinton Administration. To avoid a circus, Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde suggested that his committee form a five-person commission composed of non-office holders to handle a Waco investigation. Some in the G.O.P. want Burton to hand his material over once the commission is up and running. Says a G.O.P. leadership aide: "We've got as much out of this as we can politically. We can bash the White House, and it reminds everyone what a botched operation it was; but the longer it stretches...
They pushed my right hand onto the ground. I was shouting and begging them. I watched when they cut it off. I was looking at the stump, watching the way the veins vibrated when the blood flowed out. It was very painful, and I was shouting. When they grabbed my other hand, I blacked out, so I didn't feel them cut it off. After they'd cut off both my hands, I told them, "Kill me, because I am no use in the world!" They told me I was making a noise, and they said it was because...
Picture this: at General Cinema's Premium theater in suburban Chicago, the $15 luxury cinematic experience starts with valet parking. After the concierge escorts you to a leather recliner, a waiter is on hand to mix up a martini and serve "previews" like shrimp cocktail and "feature presentations" (get it?) like prime rib. "It's like watching a movie with all the comforts of home but better service," says Mark Kanter, a regular at the luxury venue...
Within explicit, or declarative, memory, on the other hand, there are specific subsystems that handle shapes, textures, sounds, faces, names--even distinct systems to remember nouns vs. verbs. All of these different types of memory are ultimately stored in the brain's cortex, within its deeply furrowed outer layer--a component of the brain dauntingly more complex than comparable parts in lesser species. Experts in brain imaging are only beginning to understand what goes where, and how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole...
...Tsien doesn't claim that he and his colleagues have found the unique genetic key to intelligence or even to memory. "It's likely that brain plasticity involves many molecules," he says. "This is just one of them." On the other hand, he asserts--and his critics would not disagree--that "intelligence does arise out of biology, at least in part." How much remains the great question. Whatever the answer, little Doogie surely represents an important step in unraveling what role our genes play in constructing not just memory but all the other attributes of the human mind. And clearly...