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...clock, firing off a shot--swish!--holding the pose, wrist cocked, end of game, end of career. No one has his exact gifts, but we can all imagine being like him. The famous silhouette of M.J. soaring for a one-handed slam is somehow the right size and shape for us to slide our own image into...
...accounts, he whipped a flabby Gore operation into something like fighting trim by cutting costs, establishing a chain of command and getting Gore to loosen his iron grip on campaign minutiae. Coelho made the Gore campaign what it is today - shape-shifting, unsure of how best to proceed, but very much within striking distance of George W. Bush...
This much seems clear: the traces of memory--or engrams, as neuroscientists call them--are first forged deep inside the brain in an area called the hippocampus (after the Latin word for seahorse because of its arching shape). Acting as a kind of neurological scratch pad, the hippocampus stores the engrams temporarily until they are transferred somehow (perhaps during sleep) to permanent storage sites throughout the cerebral cortex. This area, located behind the forehead, is often described as the center of intelligence and perception. Here, as in the hippocampus, the information is thought to reside in the form of neurological...
...house we also rely on the frying-pan test to judge whether a young kid is ready for feature-length animation. When she understands that something hit by an object doesn't assume the shape of the object (i.e., Jerry smacking Tom in the head with a frying pan), I figure she's ready for anything Disney can throw at her--as long as I'm with her, and as long as the video isn't Bambi. I'm still trying to get over that...
HEARTTHROB Viagra may be O.K. even if you have heart disease but are otherwise in good shape. Yes, the pills have been linked to heart attacks, some fatal. But a small study on men with severely clogged arteries shows that the drug has no direct detrimental effect on the ticker. The old rule, though, still applies: no Viagra if you're on medication containing nitrates or have recently had a heart attack...