Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stations. On the contrary, evidence is growing that the staccato bursts of electricity that form those distinctive rat-a-tat-tats arise from coordinated waves of neural activity, and that those pulsing waves, like currents shifting sand on the ocean floor, actually change the shape of the brain, carving mental circuits into patterns that over time will enable the newborn infant to perceive a father's voice, a mother's touch, a shiny mobile twirling over the crib...
...Nature is the dominant partner during this phase of development, but nurture plays a vital supportive role. Changes in the environment of the womb--whether caused by maternal malnutrition, drug abuse or a viral infection--can wreck the clockwork precision of the neural assembly line. Some forms of epilepsy, mental retardation, autism and schizophrenia appear to be the results of developmental processes gone awry...
...trained ominously on the residence. Japan's permission is needed for any attack on the compound. But Tokyo worries where the steadily intensifying displays will lead. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto had asked the Peruvian government "not to go too far. Not thinking of the hostages' mental state may have an adverse effect." But such words of pathos seemed to hold sway neither over the police nor the rebels inside, who once again warned police away with a spray of gunfire. A bullet hit one of the carriers, but no injuries were reported; the commandos, defiant, returned...
...virtual American family has suffered a real death. The feelings will be--and already are--peculiarly complicated. When I first heard the news on CNN, I suffered a momentary mental lag, an instant of ontological puzzlement: Had a human being been slain, or a sitcom character? How was Dr. Huxtable--Bill Cosby, rather--going to handle this one? How would he break such searing news to Phyllicia Rashad, his TV wife, and how could the tragedy ever be resolved in under 30 minutes...
...York Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato: "Having Al D'Amato chair an ethics inquiry is like having Ross Perot heading up a mental health task force...