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...head back. It made me really mad." A specialist machine gunner, Batchelor shot back and watched his would-be assassin topple to his death before crumpling to the ground himself. The bullet that hit Batchelor pierced his helmet and lodged in his skull, miraculously stopping before it reached his brain. It was April 4, 2004, and Batchelor had been in Baghdad for four days. He now hates the number four...
...town house. "And no one would deny the richness of their thoughts." Most of humanity probably won't read his new novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden of life after Sept. 11 and how it feels to be sucker-punched by an excitable creep...
...Saturday, McEwan also befriended a London neurosurgeon, Neil Kitchen, and spent two years following him at the hospital, finally joining him in the operating room. What he learned is set down in long passages that describe in loving (and graphic) detail the procedures of brain surgery. Work itself is a form of heroism in this book. So is love. So is a dry-eyed realism about our fates. McEwan and Perowne are both fond of quoting Charles Darwin: "There is a grandeur in this view of life." There's a grandeur in Saturday...
Scientists used to believe that the human brain recognized faces as a whole. But a new study published last week in the Journal of Vision reports that our visual system seems to parse faces as it does words: by their component parts--eyes, nose, lips. The beauty of the brain is that it can assemble those parts into a familiar face in the blink of an eye. --By David Bjerklie
...DOES CHEMOTHERAPY COMPARE WITH YOUR PREVIOUS HEALTH BATTLES--A BRAIN TUMOR AND A HEART- BYPASS OPERATION? [For the brain tumor] they put a parasol on your forehead and cut out a piece of your skull two inches by two inches, and then they take a scoop and go inside and fiddle with your brain. [For the bypass] they had my heart on the table, and I was Code Blue. And then there was the doctor who [mistakenly] diagnosed me with ALS and said I had a short time to live...