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...Sarasra crunches slowly over the cracked, gray-marbled tiles and ruptured pipes where his kitchen used to be. A week before, Israeli soldiers came to destroy his seven-bedroom home, a day after his son Hazim, 17, blew himself up in a Jerusalem suicide attack that wounded five Israelis. As the 47-year-old father of five balances himself on the debris of his home, he looks tired. He is worn by a week of mourning for his son, "who died a martyr, thank God," and for his house. What little sleep he got the previous night at his brother...
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG: Studies show overactivity and a 30% loss in gray matter in this region, causing people to lose judgment about how certain behaviors, such as overspending or being sexually indiscriminate, will affect their lives...
...most of the public cares little about his sport, he's undeniably famous, though if the U.S. Postal Service's huge, climate-controlled team bus rolled down the street in Seattle or New Orleans, most citizens would assume it was carrying mail. In France, however, the bus is a gray-and-blue magnet to autograph seekers and media hordes from around the world. Other teams have similar buses, but no other team has bouncers...
They teach neurology--he's at Johns Hopkins, and she's at Harvard. Together, these cerebral types have written a fitness book to keep your gray matter in the pink...
Determined to prove he was right, Kok rented a warehouse in the gray industrial town of Eindhoven and set about making CDs without the customary multimillion-dollar expense for "clean rooms" to keep stray dust motes and hairs from marring the discs. In place of these rooms Kok built a pickup-truck-size "in line" machine that handled all the stages of production in one clean, compact, enclosed location--thus slicing the cost of producing a CD to 18[cents], from the standard...