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SUSPENDED. Zinédine Zidane, 34, retired captain of France's soccer team; for three games, for head butting Italy's Marco Materazzi in the chest during the World Cup final in Berlin, which Italy won; by FIFA, soccer's governing body; in Zurich. Materazzi, who Zidane said provoked him repeatedly, was suspended for two games. Because Zidane retired immediately after the final, he agreed to perform community service for three days in lieu of his suspension...
...June 5 by breaking the door down. When the ex-girlfriend returned to her room, they began to fight, and witnesses found Thomas “strangling her with one hand.” He then “suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest,” according to the report, and the ex-girlfriend was later taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital to be examined...
...June 5 by breaking the door down. When the ex-girlfriend returned to her room, they began to fight, and witnesses found Thomas “strangling her with one hand.” He then “suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest,” according to the report, and the ex-girlfriend was later taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital to be examined...
...true. The operation is called deep-brain stimulation (DBS). They stick a couple of wires into your head, run them around your ears and into batteries that are implanted in your chest. Then current from the batteries zaps some bad signals in your brain so that good signals can be heard by the rest of your body. When it works, as it generally does, it greatly reduces the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. I wrote in TIME 41/2 years ago about having PD and adopting a strategy of denial: pretending to myself and others that I didn't have...
...unexpected side effects. It's the danger that people will look at you differently. We are all brain snobs, and we are all--those of us over 20 or so--losing brain cells. But if you're walking around with wires in your head and batteries flanking your chest, every senior moment when you can't remember the term for, you know, when they drill holes in your skull--right, brain surgery--is ... is ... is ... well, it's going to seem significant to others...