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Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn't know the Japanese actress could actually talk until Kikuchi spoke to her off-camera. Her country's first Oscar-nominated actress in 49 years, Kikuchi talked to TIME's Michiko Toyama...
...first-time actress and nominee has quickly become the clear favorite. Blanchett won this award two years ago for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator.”Both from “Babel,” Kikuchi, who plays a sexually-frustrated deaf girl, and Barraza, the nanny of Pitt and Blanchett’s children, provide two of the most heart-breaking performances of the year. Ten-year-old Breslin, the optimistic contestant from “Little Miss Sunshine,” could be the surprise upset.Overall, the competition is stiff...
...ongoing U.S. military prison abuse scandal. If foreign prisoners are mistreated by Americans, activists immediately spark a worldwide, front-page furor—and rightfully so. But when it comes to the far more routine, and more sinister, abuse of prisoners’ rights in China, we are deaf and dumb. Since it is not the U.S. committing the acts, Americans feel no guilt, Europeans feel no vindictiveness, and therefore no one has any notable reason to object...
...president, and if so, the announcement will take place just shy of a year to the day when the resignation of Lawrence H. Summers was announced. His was the shortest tenure in the presidential office since that of Cornelius Conway Felton, Class of 1827, who, in addition to being deaf as a post, died in office in 1862 after serving just two years. Summers remained in office, a conspicuously lame duck, until June 30 when he was succeeded by one of his predecessors, Derek C. Bok, who had served as president from...
...adult brain retains impressive powers of "neuroplasticity"--the ability to change its structure and function in response to experience. These aren't minor tweaks either. Something as basic as the function of the visual or auditory cortex can change as a result of a person's experience of becoming deaf or blind at a young age. Even when the brain suffers a trauma late in life, it can rezone itself like a city in a frenzy of urban renewal. If a stroke knocks out, say, the neighborhood of motor cortex that moves the right arm, a new technique called constraint...