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When a baby is born, it can see and hear and smell and respond to touch, but only dimly. The brain stem, a primitive region that controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing, has completed its wiring. Elsewhere the connections between neurons are wispy and weak. But over the first few months of life, the brain's higher centers explode with new synapses. And as dendrites and axons swell with buds and branches like trees in spring, metabolism soars. By the age of two, a child's brain contains twice as many synapses and consumes twice as much energy...
...Aides aroused new suspicions about his health problems Monday, when they canceled Yeltsin's planned Feb. 4 trip to the Netherlands to consult with EU leaders. His March summit with President Clinton had already been postponed, and now are placing increased emphasis on a meeting next month between fellow heartbeat-aways Chernomyrdin and Al Gore...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator; in serious but stable condition for treatment of liver dysfunction and an irregular heartbeat; in Boston. There was no evidence that Tsongas' lymphoma, diagnosed in 1983, had recurred...
...unrepentant. "Framing someone is pretty complicated," he told a prison visitor recently. "I've framed people in the past, and believe me, it can backfire. But I had something special going for me. I had the cover of 20 other police officers who would lie for me in a heartbeat. These people were the best...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "America must return to legislative sanity...Voters don't want Gingrich to be a heartbeat away from the presidency...