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...mental functioning in 21 rats whose brains had been damaged by removal of large sections of the frontal cortex. This section of the brain is involved in the learning of complex spatial relationships. Typically, rats sustaining such a severe injury would take 18 days or more to master a maze that required them to alternate right and left turns in the correct order to get a drink of water. "The rat has got to remember what he did the last time and then do the opposite," Stein explains. Normal rats can learn the task in just 2½ days...
...nation's junior high schools were guarded by the police. A group of teenagers in Yokohama not long ago beat several street bums to death. Gangs of motorcycle riders taunt the police on Saturday nights; they blast past the stations and dare police to chase them through the maze of traffic. Juvenile delinquency, historically always low, has increased 80% since 1972. A White Paper issued by the Prime Minister's office concluded of today's youth: "They are devoid of perseverance, dependent upon others and self-centered...
...computer culture between book covers, and Doubleday & Co. is betting a record sum that he is right. On the basis of a twelve-page outline, the New York City publishing house advanced Brand a whopping $1.3 million to produce an oversize paperback that will guide readers through the maze of personal-computer tools, including commercial software, free software and electronic library services. The book will be called The Whole Earth Software Catalog and reflects Brand's unique point of view...
BEING INDEPENDENT of mind at Harvard is not as easy as one might think. It certainly gives one an edge with the Admissions Committee and is indispensible in coping with the baffling and unguided maze of the Harvard bureaucracy. But when it comes down to actual intellectual pursuit. Harvard suddenly steps in with the majestic weight of its history to stamp certain chosen fields as sacred and unalterable...
There is circumstantial evidence linking the Soviet Union to West European terrorist groups such as the Red Brigades in Italy and the Baader-Meinhof gang in West Germany. When members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army went on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in the spring of 1981, for example, British intelligence agents noticed that senior KGB officials held a number of meetings with Provo leaders in Dublin. Says a top Western intelligence expert: "The Soviets back groups and people who are certifiably terrorist, but they do it with their fingers crossed and with their hands...