Word: lobe
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...demolition of the Everett Street parking garage, a structure Kagan has called one of the biggest eye sores on the Law School’s campus. The project will also involve demolishing Wyeth Hall, a dormitory, moving two houses further up Mass. Ave., and tearing down the eastern lobe of Pound Hall to create a courtyard between the new building and the Harkness Commons...
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...21st century science and technology open the brain to us as never before, accepted truths are becoming less true. The brain, we're finding, is indeed a bordered organ, subdivided into zones and functions. But the lines are blurrier than we ever imagined. Lose your vision, and the lobe that processed light may repurpose itself for other senses. Suffer a stroke in the area that controls your right arm, and another area may take over at least some...
...shows that we form opinions about a person with a 100-millisecond glance at the face alone. What's more, you can't even blame your higher brain for such bias. The impulse seems to arise in the primitive amygdala. If your prefrontal cortex is your summa cum laude lobe, the amygdala is Barney Rubble. Says Todorov: "This is a case of a high-level judgment being made by a low-level brain structure...
...Ballard has seen the enemy and he is us, at our worst. As a slightly less pessimistic British writer, Martin Amis, has observed: "Ballard is quite unlike anyone else. Indeed, he seems to address a different - a disused - part of the reader's brain." Kingdom Come addresses the shopping lobe. Richard Pearson, a newly jobless advertising executive, visits the Brooklands Metro-Centre, an enclosed shopping mall of gigantic proportions - 20 supermarkets, 30 pharmacies, two hotels - along the M25 motorway near London's Heathrow airport. Two weeks earlier his father, a retired airline pilot, was killed there along with other shoppers...