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...little hope, though, of restoring vision to children who were past the critical development period. While research with humans has been very limited, experiments with animals have shown that if you place a normal kitten, for example, in a completely dark chamber immediately after birth, the kitten will become irrevocably blind. As a result, doctors in developing nations are often reluctant to perform surgeries like cataract removals on children. The risks--infection, mostly--outweigh the meager rewards...
...tend to favor simple instruments; guitars and a drum set are their stock-in-trade. In this album, however, the drums are featured more heavily, as are the keyboards. The CD rocks more than their previous offerings, featuring heavy distortion right from the first song, “The Birth and Death of Day.” The final track on the album, “So Long, Lonesome,” ties the work together nicely, incorporating musical motifs that appeared in previous songs, and bringing closure to the work as a whole. The music is mostly simple, without...
...self-indulgent. It may reflect poor priorities. But it is also essentially American. The U.S. is the country of self-invention, of new names, new faces and new starts--the land of plasticity. To be American is to refuse to be limited by the circumstances of your birth--ethnic, economic or genetic...
...fields as well. Evidence-based practice is now being taught in nursing, general education and even philanthropy, thanks to the influence of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a results-based group if ever there was one. You could see even the political fights over global warming as the birth pangs of the new practice of evidence-based policy...
...detailed description of the three men’s attempts to set up a household is full of the appealing roughness of the frontier. After the cousins bring in the rest of their relatives, it’s only a short time until the story catches up to the birth and life of the narrator, which is when the book really takes off.Munro’s work has dealt predominantly with the lives of working-class young women, dissecting them with sympathy and sharp observation. Since the narrator of “Castle Rock” (presumably Munro herself...