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With such limited range, the Radcliffe name might seem like an insignificant asset--or even awkward conversation piece--for most graduates. But some alumnae say it is a crucial tool for establishing relationships with other professional women...
What seems to be a single memory is actually a complex construction. Think of a hammer, and your brain hurriedly retrieves the tool's name, its appearance, its function, its heft and the sound of its clang, each extracted from a different region of the brain. Fail to connect a person's name with his or her face, and you experience the breakdown of that assembly process that many of us begin to experience in our 20s--and that becomes downright worrisome when we reach...
...vestibule. On the door of its suites, framed "memory boxes" display mementos of the lives of the people who live behind those doors--family photos, military dog tags and other souvenirs of long lives. In the special section for residents with Alzheimer's, one area is stocked with old tool kits, wedding gowns and a crib with several dolls, haunting but therapeutic props meant to engage the minds of people who have returned in fantasy to younger days when they worked and raised families. "We want to create pleasant days for these folks," says Jennifer Rehm, who runs the busy...
Could aliens actually send a flash across our Milky Way galaxy? Without a doubt, says Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who first suggested lasers as a tool for interstellar communication nearly 40 years ago. Adds Werthimer: "They may have stuff out there we couldn't even dream of." O.K., E.T., never mind the phone call. Start blinking...
...COMMENT] Unearthed by the Leakeys in the early 1960s, "Handy Man" was once thought to be the earliest tool user...