Word: raye
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...from studying people who were undergoing brain surgery or had suffered brain damage. Clearly, this is not the most convenient way to learn about the brain, especially if you want to know more about what passes for normal. Even highly detailed pictures from the most advanced computer-enhanced X-ray imaging machines could reveal only the organ's basic anatomy, not how the various parts worked together. What researchers needed was a scanner that didn't subject patients to radiation and that showed which parts of the brain are most active in healthy subjects as they perform various intellectual tasks...
...funny town names (San Diablo!). A pinwheel of inexhaustible ingenuity, he had the kids in the first film pursued by an army of giant thumbs ("I snap my fingers," says a nutty TV clown, "and my fingers snap you"), and in the second one swordfighting a pirate band of Ray Harryhausen skeletons. Here were terrific adventures that paid homage to old films while they extended...
...February 2002, Milwaukee, Wis. Incident: A local television reporter passed a briefcase containing 10 banned items through the Milwaukee County Courthouse x-ray security checkpoint a total of 12 times in two days. A videotape showed a security officers looking away from the monitor as some items went through Security: Authorities said they were shocked by the "gaping" holes in their security system...
...woman with a scarf over her face walked into the Fort Bend County Courthouse with a pellet rifle and threatened a justice of the peace. She was subdued, and deputies found the gun was not loaded Security: The county adopted an earlier plan to instal metal detectors and x-ray machines...
...January 2002, Mineapolis, Minn. Incident: A woman had a loaded gun inside her briefcase when she entered the Ramsey County Courthouse Security: Deputies working security missed the gun when they opened her briefcase and searched it by hand; it was picked up on an x-ray scanner outside a courtroom