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That self-awareness resides in the brain, the organ about which scientists have the most to learn. To Physiologist Charles Sherrington, the brain's 10 billion nerve cells were like "an enchanted loom" with "millions of flashing shuttles." For some functions, M.I.T. Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber explains, brain cells are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE MIND: From Memory Pills to Electronic Pleasures Beyond Sex | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

The earth-fill dam of Van Norman Lake at the valley's west end suffered vertical cracks and some leaking of its 6.7 billion gallons of water, the city's largest reservoir. Thousands of families were evacuated and officials began draining the lake.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Los Angeles Hit by Earthquake; Reagan Declares Disaster Area | 2/10/1971 | See Source »

As it swoops downward, the moon ship Antares (named for the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius) will travel at a slightly flatter trajectory than in the past, letting Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell keep a steadier fix on their target. Although the landing will still be essentially under computer direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: To Fra Mauro and Beyond | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

ADALEN 31 becomes a commentary on the class nature of its own images, on the political repression of signs and symbols with vertical, class implications for the benefit of pure representation, appropriation, fetishism of objects. Kjell learns about the pleasures of pure aesthetics from the liberal, cultured wife of the...

Author: By Ron Crawford, | Title: Film Adalen 31 | 11/25/1970 | See Source »

Adalen 31 leaves a question: how to deal with the linear and vertical drama of history when men are so ultimately diffused, like the light in a Renoir, in sensibility and vocabulary, in pure material, in space and time. Nobody has any conception of what's happening during the massacre...

Author: By Ron Crawford, | Title: Film Adalen 31 | 11/25/1970 | See Source »

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