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PAULINE (ROBINSON) PIERCE 1896-1949 An avid gardener, she died in an accident when her husband, trying to prevent coffee from spilling on her dress, lost control...
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Gage now believes that changes in behavior--like exercising more--can affect neurogenesis and alter the brain's wiring. "The idea is that we have control over who we are, even as adults," he says. We're used to thinking that our minds control our bodies. Could it be the other way around? Could what we do change the structure of our brains? It's a radical idea--one that turns on its head accepted ideas of nature vs. nurture. And since Gage has some experience toppling long-standing biological truths, it's probably worth considering...
Marty, 54, was a 32-year Air France veteran who had flown the Boeing 747 and the airline's Airbus planes before entering the company's elite corps of Concorde pilots last year. As a pilot, recalls Bouvier-Muller, Marty was "extremely conscientious. If he lost control of his plane, it's because it couldn't be controlled. He was not one to give up even in the toughest situations. He had a stronger survival instinct than most people--perhaps because of his sporting activities...
...year-old with a hit CD. But the kid is no country-music aberration, no preteen Billy Ray Cyrus. As he shows on this set of puppy-love tunes and hound-dog rave-ups, Gilman is a real singer--sort of Charlotte Church gone Nashville--with impressive breath control and a fine sense of drama. On the title ballad, for instance, he'll hold a long note without hoking it up, without forsaking its texture or personality. This is a voice of choirboy purity, before it gets weathered and leathered by whiskey and cigarettes. Listen to it before it changes...