Word: reductionism
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A: Craig Kinsley and Kelly Lambert, two Virginia neuroscientists who have done truly pioneering work, have dissected rats' brains and found that during pregnancy there was a tremendous blossoming of what are called dendritic spines--the parts of the neurons that reach out and form synapses, necessary for new learning...
The White House is well aware that Gorbachev is likely to respond, as he did to Shultz in Moscow, by reciting a catalog of American sins and Soviet suspicions. But Reagan feels under no pressure, or so his aides insist to journalists, to show any concrete results from the summit...
The warlords liked emblems of things that are plated, spiky, slippery, streamlined or aggressive--crab claws, antlers, lobster carapace, or even the tail of a catfish. In making them, their armorers came up with shapes so breathtakingly elegant in their severe reduction of nature that they would have no Western...
The desire for summit deals is hedged by considerable doubt about their feasibility. The survey of 1,020 registered voters,[*] taken Nov. 5 through Nov. 7 by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., found that while 82% of respondents believed the first summit in six years was a good idea, only 7...
The exchange was tense but predictable. Meeting with congressional leaders last week, Ronald Reagan reiterated his support for the controversial Gramm-Rudman amendment to balance the budget in five years. The President also insisted that Gramm-Rudman did not give Congress the right to rescind its earlier agreement to increase...