"In the gage," the little girl answered.
Listen to Eleni Gage, the beauty editor of In Style magazine, a monthly portfolio of celebrity blondness, describing her challenge as a Harvard-educated caption writer.
Appearing not to notice the glaring chronological anomaly, he cites the case of Phineas Gage, the American railroad foreman whose brain was violently punctured by an iron rod.
Attempts to gage the feelings of black S. Africans on the subject-the only ones to come out against investment are either jailed or dead.
For those who already know about Gage, the railroad worker who had an iron rod blown through his skull and survived (but not, it is said, without experiencing a radically negative change in personality), Kean's article will seem audacious.
Her subjects range from Phineas Gage, the 19th-century railroad worker whose skull was shattered by an iron spike, to autistic savants, to many others whose injuries have replaced a former self with a different version.
