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Psychosurgery involves the destruction of a small section of brain--known as the amygdala--which supposedly controls aggressive behavior. A number of methods can be used to destroy the tissue, including ultrasound or laser beams. Only a very small section of tissue, about 1/600 of an inch, is damaged in the process...
...entrance to the exhibit, demonstrates the original ideas executed at their best, with the edging strokes well defined, scaled and composed, and the gradation of the color field maintaining a lush, breathing "all-over-ness." But when the borders are reduced to chalk lines in the outer inch of the painting, they tend to slide down into the narrow recess between canvas and metal frame, and let the color field dissipate back into a flat canvas flatly painted instead of the ambiguous thing we recognize as a painting...
...Communist mortar shell recently dropped right into a new compound being prepared for the ICCS, killing one workman and injuring three others. "We really were not in great danger," said one of the Canadians, "because the Communists knew every inch of this ground. If they had wanted to hit us, they could have. I think they were simply trying to frighten us away...
...stupor for three days. I was in terrible pain. They had dislodged the iron pin in my leg during the beating, and it was shoved three-quarters of an inch up into my hip. My mouth was so bruised that I could not open my teeth for five days...
...dozen legislators retreat to a gym in the basement of the Old Senate Office Building, put on do boks (loose-fitting white karate suits) and grunt and kick away. The organizer of the group, North Dakota Senator Milton Young, 75, an honorary black belt, can chop a one-inch board in half with his bare hand. The most advanced student, though, is Democratic Representative James Symington of Missouri, 45, with a second level yellow belt, who admits that he hasn't broken a board yet, adding: "I'm saving that for an audience. There's no point...