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...administration should have required Lee to hold open office hours or give lectures or host discussions for the wider Harvard community...
...death. Neuroanatomist Laura Allen and neuroendocrinologist Roger Gorski of UCLA decided to try to circumvent some of these problems by obtaining brain scans from live, apparently healthy people. In their investigation of 146 subjects, published in April, they confirmed that parts of the corpus callosum were up to 23% wider in women than in men. They also measured thicker connections between the two hemispheres in other parts of women's brains...
...when asked to spell words. By monitoring increases in blood flow, the neuropsychologist found that women use both sides of their head when spelling while men use primarily their left side. Because the area activated on the right side is used in understanding emotions, the women apparently tap a wider range of experience for their task. Intriguingly, the effect occurred only with spelling and not during a memory test...
...seen the movie, he had no reason to doubt the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. While no new evidence has emerged, the film has focused attention on the band of mostly self-appointed experts who zealously pursue theories of a wider plot. This subculture is explored here by Ron Rosenbaum, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and the author of Travels with Doctor Death, who has written extensively on conspiracy theories...
...evidence gathered in the case pointed to a far wider conspiracy, including B.C.C.I.'s secret ownership of Washington-based First American Bankshares, said Mazur, who testified behind a frosted-glass partition and spoke into a voice-altering microphone to protect his identity. "We needed a & lot more help than we had," said Mazur, who blamed the lapse on a dire shortage of staff and overly generous plea bargaining...