Word: ramey
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...many of the researchers whose work contributed to the frenzy are worried that their findings are being misinterpreted by the public. "The breathtaking PET scans of babies' brains have fueled a kind of anxiety that is unwarranted," says Craig Ramey, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Alabama, referring to the imaging technology that vividly depicts areas of high and low brain activity. "Parents may be conveying to their children a franticness about doing everything right." University of Chicago psychology professor Janellen Huttenlocher, who reported correlations between the size of toddlers' vocabularies and how much their mothers talk to them...
...care of mothers with severe depression show reduced brain activity as well as prominent effects in the parts of the brain associated with the expression of feelings. "This may result from such mothers' inability to relate affectionately and responsively to their infants," writes the University of Alabama's Ramey in his forthcoming book Right from Birth. "The longer the mother's depression continues, the greater the chances that her baby will have later behavioral or emotional problems...
...commander, to issue a press release. Haut, now 75 (he and his wife have license plates that read MR UFO and MRS UFO), remembers Blanchard's saying, "We have in our possession a flying saucer. This thing crashed north of Roswell, and we've shipped it all to General Ramey, 8th Air Force at Fort Worth...
...furor was short-lived. At 8th Air Force headquarters the same night, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, after consultations with his weather forecaster, Warrant Officer Irving Newton, called in the local press and announced that the debris was the remnants not of a saucer but of a high-altitude weather balloon. The sticks and tinfoil, he explained, were from a reflector used to track the balloon by radar. The next day, under the headline GENERAL RAMEY EMPTIES ROSWELL SAUCER, the Daily Record reported his retraction and explanation. In the same edition, the paper quoted rancher Brazel, overwhelmed by the uproar...
BORN: Dec. 24, 1956, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico EDUCATION: U.S. Military Academy, West Point, B.S., 1978 FAMILY: Wife, Patricia; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1978-84; Army Reserve, 1984-91 OCCUPATION: Real estate investor POLITICAL CAREER: South Barrington Board of Trustees, 1989-93; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 57, La Grange...