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...have also provided a window on the human brain, letting scientists watch a thought taking place, see the red glow of fear erupting from the structure known as the amygdala, or note the telltale firing of neurons as a long-buried memory is reconstructed. "What's so exciting," says Patricia Churchland, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, "is that the philosophical questions raised by the Greeks are coming within the province of science...
Hard times: first 14-year-old MACAULAY CULKIN hit "that awkward age"; now his parents are splitting up. Mother Patricia Brentrup has been granted temporary custody of six of the children she had with Kit Culkin. Brentrup claims Culkin is jeopardizing the children's careers by withholding his consent for them to work in movies...
...Patricia Thomas, 56, of Baltimore suffered nearly five years with hot flashes, night sweats and sleeplessness. Estrogen completely halted her symptoms and made her feel "wonderful." Barbara Williams, 47, of Chicago was so irritable, she says, that "my family would hate to see me coming home from work." An estrogen patch (plus progesterone pills) evened out her moods. HRT can sometimes alleviate vaguer woes -- the generalized achiness that some women feel and a sense of mental fogging. There is a "euphoric effect or general improvement in mental state," says Cleveland endocrinologist Wulf Utian, co-founder of the North American Menopause...
Parents need as much guidance as their kids do. Says UCLA psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield: "Parents tend to opt out after Sesame Street. They don't research what the good programs are." Notes Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "For children, television is a window to the world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans...
...vague, giving the government too much power to determine what kind of speech is acceptable, state lawmakers say it just extends legal prohibitions against harassment to computer communications. "This simply takes existing law into the 21st Century," says the law's sponsor, Representative Patricia Dillion. "We're not talking about making flaming illegal...