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Meanwhile, I've still got to choose and scan some pictures for the page...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Crime Night | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...stories are being written, no one will be using the Macintosh we use to scan pictures onto the newspaper page and I'll get one of the Power Macintosh's we use to lay out the page...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Crime Night | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...take negatives and scan them directly into the computer, so I look at the negatives...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Crime Night | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...other Americans each year, Lee was suffering a stroke. Something had cut off the flow of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to a portion of her brain. Sometimes the culprit is a leaky artery. But in Phillips' case, as in 80% of strokes, the problem, revealed by a CAT scan, was a clot that was plugging up one of the blood vessels in her head. Unless the clot was dislodged, part of her brain would die, leaving her at least partly paralyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAMAGE CONTROL | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Recently, positron-emission tomography (PET) scan studies at the UCLA School of Medicine have revealed that either Prozac or cognitive therapy can actually restore normal function in the obsessive-compulsive brain. The scans have documented that ocd patients have abnormal activity in the head of the caudate nucleus, a part of the brain's deep-dwelling basal ganglia, coupled with unusual activity in the orbital prefrontal cortex, just above the eye sockets. The caudate nucleus normally acts as a gatekeeper, determining which thoughts, feelings and behaviors take priority. When it malfunctions, the "worry inputs" generated in the orbital prefrontal region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TARGETING THE BRAIN | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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