Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night of the murders. Echoing the approach that worked for Simpson at the criminal trial, defense lawyer Robert Baker focused on alleged police racism and evidence tampering. But Baker, who did not indicate whether an appeal would be issued, clearly didn't have the same "Dream Team" magic that worked so successfully for Simpson in the past. But that didn't seem to bother O.J. much. After the jury made its decision, he reportedly stopped at Baskin Robbins for a pint of ice cream...
What biochemical magic underlies this incredible metamorphosis? The instructions programmed into the genes, of course. Scientists have recently discovered, for instance, that a gene nicknamed "sonic hedgehog" (after the popular video game Sonic the Hedgehog) determines the fate of neurons in the spinal cord and the brain. Like a strong scent carried by the wind, the protein encoded by the hedgehog gene (so called because in its absence, fruit-fly embryos sprout a coat of prickles) diffuses outward from the cells that produce it, becoming fainter and fainter. Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations...
...brain's greatest growth spurt, neuroscientists have now confirmed, draws to a close around the age of 10, when the balance between synapse creation and atrophy abruptly shifts. Over the next several years, the brain will ruthlessly destroy its weakest synapses, preserving only those that have been magically transformed by experience. This magic, once again, seems to be encoded in the genes. The ephemeral bursts of electricity that travel through the brain, creating everything from visual images and pleasurable sensations to dark dreams and wild thoughts, ensure the survival of synapses by stimulating genes that promote the release of powerful...
...first met David Ho when I was a third-year medical student at UCLA rotating on internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. I've followed his career in the media since then, mostly because of his care of basketball star Magic Johnson. Ho does not seem to have aged at all in 15 years. I've met many talented and smart physicians in my professional life--but none brighter than he. He is the only person I know who deserves to be called a human encyclopedia. TERRENCE K. TRAPP, M.D. Salinas, California...
...Green Bay. And Ditka, at 57, is five years a TV analyst, a veteran of hip and heart ailments who still has trouble with the fact that Bears refugee Jim Harbaugh turned into a decent quarterback. But the Saints, who never change, will need all of that old magic to fill the Superdome for even one non-January game. This Ditka will clearly have to be full-size...