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...tantalizing questions are now bugging medical science: Can man learn to take more knowledge for his province by putting more of his brain to active use? What parts of the brain are responsible for controlling various movements, functions and faculties, from aimless thumb-twiddling to Boolean algebra? To the first question, there is still no answer. And neurologists have not yet agreed on a detailed mapping of brain areas and brain functions...
...shall be punished. Kafka never knew the totalitarian state that his intuition prefigured. But he knew the weight and layers of a hostile environment. He was brought up in the ghetto of the German-speaking Jews of Prague, surrounded by hostile Slavs who, in turn, were under the thumb of the dying Austrian Empire...
...Norman Newsom, he always referred to himself and everyone else as "Bobo,'' drove around in a custom-built car with a two-tone bobo horn and his name in gold leaf a foot high on the dashboard. He was magnetic to baseballs, at various times broke his thumb, his kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees in the 1936 opener in Washington, a third-inning wild throw from third base to first fractured his jaw. Bobo picked himself up and went on with the game. "When President Roosevelt comes to see Bobo pitch. Bobo ain't gonna...
...First standardized by Henry I (1100-1135), who made it conform to the distance between his nose and outstretched right thumb...
...election day, voters had to dip their left thumb in a bottle of indelible red ink to prevent repeat performances. Even without repeats, the popular winner by far was Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, 38, whose United National Independence Party drew 65,000 votes with its slogan, "Kwacha!" (Dawn), and its appeal for more black power. But Kaunda won only 14 seats, and Welensky's United Federal Party, with one-third of the votes, won 15. The African National Congress of roisterous Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's ex-mentor, won five seats. Ten seats were left vacant because too few voters...