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...that of diseased individuals. In 41 nuns who did not have Alzheimer's-like brains, researchers found, strokes caused no measurable decrease in overall mental competence. But in nuns with Alzheimer's, just one or two strokes--small strokes that left swirls of dead tissue no bigger than a pencil tip--were enough to trigger a precipitous decline. "One brain disease is bad enough," Snowdon observes. "But when you add a second disease to it, you're in real trouble...
...that time of year again. You sit hunched over a sheet of paper with a pencil in your sweaty palms. You agonize over each game. All of a sudden, you realize that you really care about Butler and Coppin State...
Once they told me about how a pencil was dropped over Sanders' balcony, right onto the head of an unsuspecting TF. I realized I was missing out; small classes were worthwhile, but I had to experience the apparent laugh-a-minute that was the Harvard lecture course...
...actors were not so goofily earnest in their delivery that real concentration on what they say is almost impossible. Is E!, on the other hand, affording viewers easy laughs? Certainly. Each day the fake O.J. (Stephen Eskridge; likeness: excellent) seems to get better at fiddling with his pencil and gazing intensely at the goings-on. When the faux Los Angeles Police Department criminologist Collin Yamauchi (Charlie Minn) said "phenylethylene test," it seemed funnier than any bit on Mad TV. Who needs cameras in the courtroom...
...Johns dreamed of painting a large American flag, and the next morning he got up and began to do so. He would play with the flag motif for several decades more, rendering the Stars and Stripes in wax encaustic paint on newspaper collage, in oil on canvas, in bronze, pencil and lithography. His fascination with it came, in part, from his very nuanced and ironic feelings about the function of art, particularly in America and especially after Abstract Expressionism...