Word: kneeing
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...times as likely to be diagnosed in boys as in girls. The disorder has replaced what used to be popularly called "hyperactivity," and it includes a broader collection of symptoms. ADHD has three main hallmarks: extreme distractibility, an almost reckless impulsiveness and, in some but not all cases, a knee-jiggling, toe-tapping hyperactivity that makes sitting still all but impossible. (Without hyperactivity, the disorder is called attention deficit disorder...
...prefrontal cortex, it is where reason is applied to complex social situations, where our personal scales of justice do their weighing. It may come as a shock that this highest, most spiritual faculty is just as identifiable and in some ways as physically vulnerable as, say, a knee joint. But vulnerable it is. One's moral fiber can literally snap. For it was just such a rupture that led the researchers to their discovery...
...mind. The result is like bouncing a ball against a wall--whatever he throws into her mind, he receives back when he "reads" her mind. He spends the entirety of the first scene trying to win her trust. He tells her she has a small scar on her left knee which she doesn't remember getting. He finds out she has lost her mother, then tells her that her mother was close by when Miss A. Dreamed of meeting him. But he doesn't give her any advice. Instead, he wants to convince her that she needs him, that...
...tragedy struck in 1979. Their two-year-old daughter Aaren fell into the backyard swimming pool and drowned. When O.J. heard about the accident, he rushed down the hospital hallway screaming, "She murdered my child, she murdered my child!" That year he and Marquerite were divorced, and he had knee surgery. His playing days were over...
...carrying eight soldiers. At that point, Hamad went outside. He asked one of the soldiers, "Protect us from this man." The soldier replied, "Get away. Go home." Hamad noticed that one of the settlers was moving toward his house, with a soldier flanking him on either side. Using his knee, the settler smashed in one of the glass panes on Hamad's front door while the two soldiers stood...