Word: lobe
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...fundamental question is, are children capable of understanding the consequences of their actions? Maybe not; recent studies suggest that the brain?s prefrontal lobe, which some scientists speculate plays a crucial role in inhibiting inappropriate behavior, may not reach full development until...
...Garcia basically tells me that Rock in Rio is helping to brand AOL in the minds of Brazilians. An image enters my mind of a sizzling cattle brand being applied to the frontal lobe of a struggling South American being held down by three gringos in pinstriped suits. There are billboards for the festival all over town, in yellows and blues and greens, each featuring young, cool, good-looking, Brazilians who look on the verge of orgasm thanks to some combination of having tickets to Rock in Rio and/or being connected to the Internet thanks to America Online...
...women behind him. "We have heard so much about the men who have been role models for these candidates," Tumulty says. "But these women explain parts of [Gore] that you don't get any other way." Gore's mother, Pauline Gore, shaped her son's relentlessly left-lobe way of looking at the world. And his wife Tipper helped awaken his latent emotional side. "What really got me interested in doing this story was an offhand comment Tipper made in an interview I did with her three years ago," Tumulty says. "She said the discipline in [Gore's] thinking came...
...scooped the boy into his arms last week at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, he kissed him and joyfully urged him, "Bite my ear, hard!" Elian shyly buried his head in Juan's neck, then revealed to his Cuban kin why he couldn't chomp on his abuelo's lobe: he had lost his two front baby teeth during the final weeks of his seven-month-long stay...
...setting out on my memory odyssey, I dialed up a few experts to learn how common memory complaints such as mine are and how serious they could become. On both counts, I came away reassured. While the brain stores memories in a number of areas, it is the frontal lobe that retrieves them and puts them to work. For all its data-crunching power, the frontal lobe is a fragile thing. Everything from fatigue to hormonal changes to simple cellular wear and tear can cause it to falter. "Frontal-lobe processes change in all people as they age," says Scott...