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Close your eyes. Imagine a can of soda or a carton of eggs, and then, with your eyes still closed, estimate its size with your hands. A study in Psychological Science predicts that your visual memory will make you overestimate; a blind person--more tactilely sensitive--will do better. --By David Bjerklie...
...French law was drafted in the wake of the controversial case of Vincent Humbert, who was left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident. "France's general perception of what is going on in the Schiavo case is similar to the general mood with Humbert," says Cohen. "Most here have compassion for the patient, and are in favor of allowing death because they understand there is no point in living in this state." There is a difference, though. Vincent Humbert expressed a clear will to die. He dictated an acclaimed book, I Ask the Right...
...clear, though, that the inhabitants of early 20th century Europe were blind to forces right in front of them, forces that would soon send their entire world crashing down in flames. Trench warfare would soon break out in a continent that had not known generalized war between the great powers since the time of Napoleon, and it would prove to be wildly more destructive than any previous conflict. Just as drastic was in the increase in political violence: In the first year of Communist rule in Russia ,more people were executed by the regime than during the entire 19th century...
DIED. GEORGE SCOTT, 75, booming baritone and founding member of the gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama, who met at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1936 and recorded gospel versions of songs by Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder; a month after winning a fourth consecutive Grammy Award; in Durham...
...comes what may be the crowning blow--at least with respect to staving off heart disease. A double-blind placebo-controlled trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, found that taking 400 IUs of vitamin E each day did nothing to prevent heart attacks or strokes in a group of nearly 10,000 mostly elderly patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. This disappointing news comes on the heels of the Women's Health Study finding earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older...