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...children verbalize - words when learning to read. Studies have since suggested that victims have something amiss in the cerebral cortex, an all-important part of the brain responsible for thought and language. Last week researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presented evidence that may pinpoint a spot in the cortex where dyslexia originates. It is an area of tissue called the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN), which affects hearing by acting as a relay station for auditory signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Bane: Researchers may have found a cause for dyslexia | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...Klux Klan in the past. Harsh as that sounds, if Britton's death causes Phillips or other abortion providers to step down in fear, Griffin, Hill and others like them will have achieved the goal of all terrorism: to thwart the established policy of a nation through the pinpoint application of brutal violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avenging the Unborn | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...difficult to really pinpoint" how manyalleged criminals escape from the police becausethey're uncatchable by car, Pasquarello says."It's not that many...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Fleeing a Crime Scene? Beware the Bike Police | 7/12/1994 | See Source »

...year-old stark black granite walls of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington are cracking. The monument, which lists the American war dead from that conflict, shows only hairline fractures at the moment. But the apparent flaws have prompted a study, to be announced tomorrow, to pinpoint causes of the damage. Proceeds from U.S. coins minted to commemorate the Memorial and Vietnam veterans will pay for the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRACKS IN THE 'NAM WALL | 6/14/1994 | See Source »

...South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A Stealth fighters and F-15E strike jets. The U.S. would also rely on sophisticated radar to pinpoint the enemy's artillery tubes and take them out with artillery salvos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA: What If... ...War Breaks Out In | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

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