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...life are a crucial period for brain development--a time when connections between neurons are being forged at a prodigious rate as a baby learns to make sense of the external world. Interfere with that process, and you can cause permanent, irrevocable damage. If a child is born blind, for example, it's pretty much over by age 6. You can fix the eyes, and they might be able to perceive light and dark. Without the right visual circuitry in place, though, there's no way to form images--the essence of true sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Blindness is Epidemic | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

Patriotism or Blind Support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 2007 | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...critics calling the U.S. practice of secretly transferring terrorism suspects from one country to another the equivalent of outsourcing torture, the E.U.'s final report alleges that the CIA operated more than 1,245 flights in European airspace between 2001 and 2005 and accuses several countries of "turning a blind eye" to those flights, which "on some occasions" were used for rendition. The 76-page communiqué, which caps a yearlong investigation of flight data from the E.U.'s air-traffic agency, doesn't confirm the existence of secret detention facilities but says those temporary prisons "may" have been located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Raps the CIA | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...would think that this was just blind luck, but for the Crimson faithful, it is nothing more than a little bit of history repeating—as a result of the two recent heartbreaks against the Tigers, Harvard has one, just one victory over Princeton in the past nine years, occurring in 2005 at Lavietes...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Tries to Make History | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

Knowles’ Blind Spot The gift tax is representative of a greater disregard toward student life By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, December 06, 2006 The debate over the gift tax is about more than a mere $15,000 per year. It is also a symbolic fight against the rapidly eroding interest in student life within University Hall...

Author: By The crimson editoral board | Title: Opinion Coverage of President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust and the Presidential Search | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

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