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Just how estrogen works in the brain remains obscure, though research by Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University has shown that the hormone increases the number of connections between nerve cells in the hippocampus, a region that helps govern memory. Estrogen also increases the production of acetylcholine, a brain chemical that is abnormally low in Alzheimer's patients...
...pair of gloves and ordered two young Marines to flank him with their bodies in order to keep him as warm as possible and shield him from the 45-degree wind whipping through the portals through which the helicopter's machine guns protruded. One of those Marines was Paul Bruce of Lebanon, Maine, a 20-year-old lance corporal who could see that the young pilot was in emotional tatters. "When he first got on the helo, he was sobbing and weeping," said Bruce. "It was more than just a tear or two. His chest was heaving...
...pilots began violently rocking the choppers from side to side, hugging as close to the ground as they dared and occasionally executing a stomach-churning pop-up to clear low-hanging power lines. Inside the helicopters, life jackets, ammunition boxes and Marines began pitching about. Pevear and Bruce nervously eyed their passenger, who appeared to be clenching his teeth. "I just looked at him and told him he was with the Marines and everything was going to be all right," said Bruce. It was an assurance that neither Bruce nor Pevear quite believed. "We were zigzagging around, banking hard...
...Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by David Bjerklie/New York and Bruce Crumley/Paris
Besides Schwarzenegger, Dole exempted from criticism the works of Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone. This, some have speculated, is because they are fellow Republicans. But that's not really the issue. All these guys appear in movies where the vast body count is composed entirely of anonymous victims. They are to other movies what assault weapons (another of the Senator's favorite products) are to the rest of gundom-instruments of totally affectless violence...