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...poor neighborhoods. “Getting access to better neighborhoods erodes the salience of race for African Americans,” Gay says. She thinks this will present a challenge to politicians accustomed to appealing to a single black voting block. But Gay isn’t blind to nonbinary colors.She is now investigating how economic disparities within neighborhoods influence relationships between blacks and Latinos. Material deprivation can drive hostility between groups, she found.“You have two minorities, small in number, that you think can share an affinity—but yet you see conflict...
...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...
Evidently, though, nobody told the surgeons who operated on S.R.D. And as Sinha and his colleagues discovered, it's a good thing. Even though S.R.D.'s visual acuity topped out at 20/200--considered legally blind in the U.S.--her brain had, in defiance of theory, learned to interpret visual information. One year after surgery, she could recognize her family's faces and identify objects. And that's a very big deal. Dr. Suma Ganesh, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital in Old Delhi, India, used to believe that operating on blind children past the critical period...
...S.R.D., alas, the recovery that neuroscientists had deemed impossible was also relatively short-lived. A few months ago, she died in a traffic accident--while taking her blind 9-year-old daughter to an eye clinic...
...students came here not to get inebriated, but to work,” Conley says, sitting in the pleasantly dim library of the master’s residence, his two large Bernese mountain dogs by his feet. “At the end last year, I gave a blind tasting. They could tell where each wine was from...