Word: lobe
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...gets to play catch with his long-dead father. Watching this, I felt like the subject of an Oliver Sacks case study: I wanted to laugh derisively, of course, but the film somehow circumvented the part of my brain that controls critical judgment and beamed directly into the blubber lobe. My tears were compulsive, reflexive, the way I imagine tears to be for women when they watch female weepies like An Affair to Remember, in which Deborah Kerr can't meet Cary Grant at the Empire State Building because she's been hit by a car, or The English Patient...
...left frontal region is the area of the brain behind the temple. The left temporal lobe is the area behind that. Previous neuroimaging studies have identified the parahippocamal cortex, the inner wall of the left temporal region, as particularly important in memory formation. Due to advances in MRI techniques, the activated regions can now be localized with greater precision than previously possible...
...first part of Mantra, a pilot study to determine, among other things, whether prayer by strangers might influence the medical outcomes of 30 patients in Krucoff's cath lab at the Durham VA hospital. The project, whose symbol is a valentine-style heart with an angel hovering near one lobe, is too small to be statistically meaningful, but the results--the outcomes of those prayed over were 50% to 100% better than those of a control group--were sufficient, as Krucoff puts it, to be "intriguing." He and Crater will present them at an American Heart Association meeting in November...
Some of the people behind Animal Kingdom are as charismatic as the beasties on show. Rohde, 42, an intensely jaunty adventurer with a silent-movie villain's mustache and enough gigantic native earrings dangling from his left lobe to fill a display case in a Nairobi Tiffany's, is a fine artist whose drawings from his world travels cued many of the park's lustrous images...
Cameron used cliched plot devices for good reason. He spent $200 million on scenery, so he needed to market the film for a mass audience-originality is a risk he could not afford to take. By writing a simple lobe story with a beautiful backdrop, he knew he could turn Titanic into a money machine...