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...Italy is embroiled in its own version of the Schiavo saga after a judicial panel ruled in favor of a father who wants to cut off life-support to his daughter, who has been in a coma since suffering irreversible brain damage in a 1992 car accident when she was 20. Though there is no intra-family battle over Eluana Englaro's fate, the case contains the same mix of legal appeals, religious activism and philosophical ponderings. Local newspapers have been filled in recent days with smiling photographs of the now comatose patient before the car crash, and details...
...about it is precisely that increment that resists theorization. The great pleasure of Wood's book lies in the examples, not the points they prove, and the lessons lie in watching him read, not think. The novel exists only in practice, not in theory, in the moment when the brain hits the page--the moment when a dying servant's bare heels meet beneath the sheets on his deathbed...
Alcoholic energy drinks are a crime against taste--but worse, they trick your brain into believing you're not as drunk as you are. Bottom line: have a real beer instead. If your beverage of choice carries a silly name like Joose, you're probably too young to drink anyway...
Murcer fought through brain cancer to call games last season. "Though I've become something of a weeper," he wrote in his autobiography, Yankee for Life, released this spring, "I find myself laughing as much as I ever did, if not more." Somewhere he and Scooter are keeping them hootin...
Understanding Fragile X Claudia Wallis' article "The Fragile X Factor" provides a compelling view of a simple single-gene disorder that has turned out to be far more complicated than anyone imagined [July 7]. Biologically, the gene has ripple effects throughout the brain. For families, it has ripple effects across generations. Many doctors, teachers and therapists know too little about it to provide appropriate care. Thank you for helping raise public awareness. Don Bailey, President of the Board of Directors, National Fragile X Foundation CHAPEL HILL...