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...Mending Limbs and Lives I enjoyed reading about the prosthetics designed to help amputee animals keep moving [Sept. 3]. (But if the author thinks readers will go so far as to endorse prosthetic dog testicles, she should think again.) This article implies that work with animal prosthetics exceeds advances in human ones. As an 82-year-old amputee, I've witnessed fantastic advances in prosthetic design. My current artificial leg uses electromagnetics and scanning to fit the specific contours of my stump. Prosthetics specialists are to be commended for the time, analysis and effort they put into getting each patient...
...common mistake, and one that dooms most investors to lousy returns. In his new book Your Money and Your Brain, author Jason Zweig says humans are wired to act this way. The amygdala, a tiny, -almond-shaped knob of tissue in the brain, responds to potential risk by flooding the bloodstream with stress hormones such as corticosterone, which enable us to react quickly to danger. These emotional warning flares can be lifesavers if, say, you encounter a snake, but the sudden waves of emotion make it hard to stay calm in the face of a whipsawing market. Zweig says brain...
Then there's the problem of tempo. Other modern movies move at warp speed, but the cowboy hero is a man with a slow hand. As Christopher Frayling, author of biographies of Eastwood and Leone, notes, "You can speed up spaceships and cars, but you can't speed up horses." A director also has a tough time making the old new--and the western is 19th century. "Americans don't like the past," says Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born writer-director of Jesse James. "They're O.K. with future and the present, but they can't remember anything before...
Williams is a senior correspondent for NPR, an analyst for Fox News and the author of Enough
...asked to leave the Coop after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial he hopes to take. “I’m a junior and every semester I do the same thing. I go and look up the author and the cost and order the ones that are cheaper online and then go back to the Coop to get the rest,” Zafran said. “I’m not a rival bookstore, I’m a student with an I.D.,” he added...