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Though doctors greeted the study as a breakthrough, the good news was tinged with irony for parents like the Hebeins. They have raised a child with Down syndrome in an era of opportunity for the disabled and have helped redefine what such children are capable of. Chris Hebein is a remarkable example. Having graduated from a special education school, he has worked full time for the past 12 years as a mail clerk at Rotary International in Evanston. Never late, never absent, Chris Hebein adores his work and takes pride in his ability to sort mail at top speed...
...ready for an Era of the Brain. New scanning techniques are making it easier to determine how our minds work and creating hopes in the corporate world that companies can make new connections with customers--and duplicate the Coke effect. The breakthrough behind all that is the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the latest in neuroimaging technology, which displays not only the structure of the brain but also how it actually functions, by measuring its blood flow. In the scans, specific areas of the brain light up as various mental processes occur. Although the technology is still...
...Fusion Breakthrough The hottest place in the solar system -- for a few moments -- was the interior of a huge doughnut-shaped contraption at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, which in a burst of heat and light generated more than 5 million watts of energy, a record for nuclear fusion and a milestone on the road to making power plants fueled by ingredients from ordinary water a 21st century reality...
...believe the administration of the holy shrines, not the holy city, should be by them. ARAFAT: For centuries we lived together with Jews. When Europe was in the dark ages, we lived together. We called them our cousins. It is a part of our tradition. RABIN: The historic breakthrough was not now. It was when President Sadat, the leader of the largest Arab country, came to Jerusalem and succeeded in bringing down all the walls of suspicion, hatred, prejudices vis-a-vis Egypt. Arafat is not in a position to do it because he is not in control...
...past four years, testing an extraordinarily promising vaccine against the disease. So far, it's only partly effective, but even in this imperfect form, experts say, it could save millions of lives. "We're talking about the first solid demonstration of a malaria vaccine," says Alonso. "This is a breakthrough...