Word: normally
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...says, "the market is roughly at fair value. Stocks are priced about where we think they should be. So I think we have moved from an abnormal period of wonderful returns into a normal period of good returns." Amplifying the thought, Farrell sees the beginning of "a rifle-shot stock- picking environment" in which stock performance varies widely not just by industry group but also among companies in the same industry, based on their individual performances and prospects...
...reality--not just once but several times during his astonishing career. Yet while there clearly had to be something remarkable about Einstein's brain, the pathologist who removed it from the great physicist's skull after his death reported that the organ was, to all appearances, well within the normal range--no bigger or heavier than anyone else...
Finally, in 1996, Harvey gave much of his data and a significant fraction of the tissue itself to Dr. Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist who maintains a "brain bank" at McMaster for comparative studies of brain structure and function. These normal, undiseased brains, willed to science by people whose intelligence had been carefully measured before death, gave Witelson a solid set of benchmarks against which to measure the seat of Einstein's brilliant thoughts. To make the comparison as valid as possible, Witelson and her team compared Einstein's tissues with those of men close...
What they found was that while the overall size of Einstein's brain was about average, a region called the inferior parietal lobe was about 15% wider than normal. "Visuospatial cognition, mathematical thought and imagery of movement," write Witelson and her co-authors, "are strongly dependent on this region." And as it happens, Einstein's impressive insights tended to come from visual images he conjured up intuitively, then translated into the language of mathematics (the theory of special relativity, for example, was triggered by his musings on what it would be like to ride through space on a beam...
...RHYTHM? Defibrillators have been used to shock erratic heartbeats back to normal in thousands of patients with atrial fibrillation. But about 20% of the time, electrically charged paddles don't do the trick. Now there's help. A new study shows that defibrillators can work in problem cases if patients are first treated with a drug called ibutilide...