Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Relic Hunter is a masterpiece compared with Peter Benchley's Amazon, an adventure show starring former model Carol Alt and created by Benchley, who wrote Jaws. Not only is the series slow moving and badly produced, it doesn't show much skin. Instead of having fun with a story about a land of beautiful giant women, Amazon has six passengers of a crashed plane wandering aimlessly in the South American jungle. One would think the women's clothes would be shredded and useless after the first week, but somehow they always appear dry-cleaned...
When most physicians got their training, they were taught that the adult brain is rigid, that its nerve cells, or neurons, could never regenerate themselves. If you nick your finger with a knife, the cut will heal in a few days because your skin has the ability to generate new cells. But when something bad happens to the brain, it doesn't repair itself. Why's that? "The brain is not plastic," says Snyder. "It doesn't make new cells. You are born with more brain cells than you need, and you lose them progressively and get dumber and dumber...
Different kinds of blood cells, red and white, come from a single kind of stem cell in bone marrow. These chameleon-like stem cells transform themselves into whatever kind of blood cells the body needs. The skin and liver have their own stem cells. "Maybe there is a brain stem cell, a mother cell that gives rise to all types of brain cell," Snyder says he wondered. "I wanted to find this cell and harness it to repair injured brains...
...Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first third of the movie; the pacing is deliberate and slow, allowing the film to get under Wigand's skin and into his life...
...Even after managing in Atlanta, does that tomahawk chant make your skin crawl...