Word: mental
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...execution would be the state's first in 25 years. It would also end Harris' 13-year odyssey through state and federal courts. His case broke no new legal ground: he was an adult at the time of the crime, and race was not a factor. Neither was his mental condition -- until January. His attorney, Howard Friedman, told Wilson in the final clemency appeal that newly discovered evidence showed that Harris had suffered "organic brain damage" due to child abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome. If the trial jury had known that, Friedman argued, it might have given him life imprisonment...
...time I reached the Wellesley mile, I had a good idea of when I would finish. I was doing a little over three miles an hour, and I wasn't getting as much thinking done as I had hoped. I tried to make mental notes of the spectators, or of the houses and the landscape, but it wasn't much use. I had passed the point where a walk is a useful thinking tool and just wanted to get back to Boston and take a shower. a waited for the mile markers. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. I stopped at a Star...
...Taylor, the Pennsylvania band Live is touring with Big Audio Dynamite, Public Image Limited and Blind Melon on MTV's 120 Minutes national tour. The band, whose oldest member is 21, has been playing together since they were all in junior high. Now they've got a hit album, Mental Jewelry, and a slot on MTV. And they're getting ready to tour Europe and then record again. Think about that when you put on your graduation robe and a funny hat and pick up your degree...
Harvard is still sitting pretty in the polls, but the past two losses do pose a concern for the Crimson. The once formidable Crimson attack has been losing steam as of late. Lack of consistent ball control and occasional mental errors have led to a stalling offense...
...struggling to allocate precious resources. Only 17% of U.S. elementary schools offer foreign-language programs, and nearly all of them teach their students the old-fashioned way. Yet results from partial-immersion programs suggest that students gain more than language skills and a taste for a foreign culture. The mental muscles they build from concentrating hard in their Japanese-taught classes make them stronger in other subjects as well. Some of the most enthusiastic proponents are the English-language teachers exposed to the Japanese-taught students. Says Great Falls third-grade teacher Roberta Sherman: "It's a class from heaven...