Word: pineal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mail came the year's most original movie tie-in: a red plastic visor with a 4-in. protruding, well, sort of asparagus stalk. "Fun Facts and Myths About the Pineal Gland (The Gland of the '80s)" reads the press release. "Mad Doctor Edward Pretorious' invention stimulates the pineal gland and causes it to protrude and take on a personality of its own -- much like your official From Beyond Pineal Gland Visor . . . Wear it anywhere: the ballpark, parties, the shower (it's waterproof...
...romantic surge may be as much scientific as emotional, according to a study by Dr. Joel Ehrenkranz, a resident in internal medicine at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Looking for a relationship between human breeding habits and the effects of seasonal light on the pituitary and pineal glands, Ehrenkranz spent portions of a five-year span measuring the hormone levels of Eskimos in Labrador. Birth records of two Eskimo communities dating back to 1778 showed a sharp increase in births in March. This confirmed Ehrenkranz's observations that secretions from these glands had changed dramatically...