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...example, children who are born with a cataract will become permanently blind in that eye if the clouded lens is not promptly removed. Why? The brain's visual centers require sensory stimulus--in this case the stimulus provided by light hitting the retina of the eye--to maintain their still tentative connections. More controversially, many linguists believe that language skills unfold according to a strict, biologically defined timetable. Children, in their view, resemble certain species of birds that cannot master their song unless they hear it sung at an early age. In zebra finches the window for acquiring the appropriate...
...medical breakthroughs that have already had the deepest impact are those that enhance sight and mobility. Nationwide, more than a million cataract procedures are performed each year to correct clouding in the lens of the eye. Until 20 years ago, the main treatment was the removal of the patient's lens and its replacement with a thick pair of cataract glasses to correct his vision. Now ophthalmologists are able to implant a new, artificial lens behind the iris, a procedure that has become so routine that it is usually done on an outpatient basis...
...Intergroup, paid for all of Ariel's reconstructive surgery and hospital costs, but after the little girl left the hospital at the age of 14 months, Intergroup's coverage became much more limited. Yet Ariel's medical needs remained daunting: an array of physical and emotional therapies, a future cataract operation (both Ariel and her sister Aleah were born legally blind) and special schools. Ariel is the only Weber covered by Arizona's state program, which tries whenever possible to help families care for patients--both disabled and elderly--at home. "If they took away funding for this,'' says Charlene...
...reputation? The World Bank, which is 50 years old this year, ought to be celebrating its career as the Mother Teresa of global finance. All told, the bank has extended $300 billion in loans to pay for 6,000 projects ranging from Japan's bullet train to a cataract-surgery clinic in India that will serve 11 million people. Instead of inspiring congratulations, however, the institution's golden anniversary has drawn damning accusations that the bank has damaged the environment, bolstered authoritarian regimes and favored rich people over poor ones. The criticism is getting noisy and forceful. A loose coalition...
...News president Lack defends "Cataract Cowboys," calling Southeastern Eye Center's concerns "misplaced." Dateline executive producer Neal Shapiro contends the clinic's attacks come only because Dateline is still "vulnerable" as a result of the GM fiasco. Even the threat of litigation was bad news for image-battered Dateline. Earlier this month, Utah's Orrin Hatch took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to denounce the show for its "false and reckless" claim, aired Aug. 3, that he had introduced legislation that would have benefited a firm in which he holds a financial interest. Dateline's producers...