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Finally we have learned the word--synesthesia--that describes what our adult daughter has been telling us for years: in her mind she sees numbers and letters of the alphabet in various colors [SCIENCE, May 21]. A is green, B is red, lowercase b is pink, 2 is yellow, 3...
Everyone makes adjustments to survive. "It terrified me that they don't put their babies in car seats," says Judy Hubbard, 64, a day-care provider from East Hampton, N.Y. "And the town doesn't pick up garbage for days. But I learned to live and let live." Now she...
Wang now prefers to travel by train: he has learned firsthand that you never know who's flying your plane. (Then again, he has heard of a rival printer who has been producing bogus train-engineer diplomas.) But Wang figures it's better to be in a train accident than...
When they are not calling him Wizard (a tribute to his magical offensive abilities), the Mariners gleefully refer to Ichiro as Ichiballs. He has learned a variety of English curse words, plus some of America's most useless phrases. Rookie reliever Ryan Franklin taught Ichiro to say "chillin' like Bob...
I didn't really have any friends, and my mother's ability to deny was pretty strong. Then I got in a lot of trouble with the law for stealing, and was offered the option of treatment. It sounded a lot better than five to 10 years in the penitentiary...