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DEATH FROM ABOVE Falls from windows, fire escapes, roofs and balconies kill 140 children each year in the U.S. and seriously injure 3 million more. The problem is especially bad in the summer for children living in urban apartment buildings. Screens are not enough, warns the American Academy of Pediatrics, which calls for window guards (not bars) and balcony railings that meet building codes...
...merlin has come to pose upon a post outside a kitchen window - dove-colored and innocent, until you look again and see it is no dove, but a merlin, that is, a pigeon-hawk. Yesterday, not far from the post, we found a catbird lying dead on its side, unmarked by struggle or wound. Perhaps it died of cardiac infarction or some other internal disaster, but I suspect the merlin...
...senior gift. Okay, you're warming up. I'm willing to listen. You even make the gracious gesture of offering me "a second opportunity to make a pledge of $10.00 before Commencement." It's nice that you're giving me another opportunity to take my money-I thought the window had closed. Phew...
What does all this tell us about the mind? "What you're seeing here is a window into thought itself," says Ramachandran, who is slated to speak at the Princeton meeting. "It also gives us an experimental handle to investigate the neural basis of more elusive phenomena like metaphor." It's a fair bet, he argues, that synesthesia is caused by genetic mutations that create dense neural connections between areas of the brain that process sensory information. Ramachandran hypothesizes that in normal brains, a handful of these links might play a role in the formulation of metaphors, which often blend...
...discreetly as possible in a relatively empty room, she rapidly refilled her cup. I do not believe that anyone else observed her in the act. Instead of picking up my cracker, I walked around the table as if I had intended to look at the prints near the window...