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...spite of one glib reply ("Answer: Eat a ham sandwich under a bridge Thursdays between 4-4:30. Women will come."), one restroom visitor took the time to consider the question at length...
...plasticity but increased in power. Talents and latent tendencies that have been nurtured are ready to blossom. The experiences that drive neural activity, says Yale's Rakic, are like a sculptor's chisel or a dressmaker's shears, conjuring up form from a lump of stone or a length of cloth. The presence of extra material expands the range of possibilities, but cutting away the extraneous is what makes art. "It is the overproduction of synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says neuroscientist William Greenough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
...with a new initiative. Otherwise, the President will probably repeat his plea that despite progress on many economic and social issues, more remains to be done. One thing viewers can count on, says McAllister, is that Clinton's speech will be fairly long. Pundits jibed the President for the length of his address last year, but McAllister says focus groups show that people who watched the whole speech actually liked it. Of course, that may mean that those who didn?t like the speech had long since switched channels...
...bring Snow White to life for a whirlwind adventure with Seven Little Dwarfs and an evil stepmother. In a 1993 interview, Caselotti, who was educated in a convent outside of Rome, said that she didn't even realize she was working on Disney's first feature-length production until the movie's star-studded premiere. Paid $970 for her role in making the lighthearted Snow White part of American movie folklore, Caselotti never saw her career venture much beyond "Whistle While You Work" and "I'm Wishing." Disney refused to let her make public appearances as the voice behind Snow...
...Faye Resnick. Most of the media decided that there was nothing more important for the public to know about--not Russia, not China, not Iran, not much of the U.S.--than O.J. Those with an interest in history could note that America's involvement with O.J. was nearing the length of its involvement in World War II, which was not covered as thoroughly...