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When the course of therapy was complete, a brain scan indicated renewed muscle activity in the paralyzed limb - a finding that seems to vindicate scientists' previous theory that the brain can, in fact, be actively rewired. "For years there's been hope that you can retrain the brain," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. As our understanding of the brain becomes more sophisticated, Gorman explains, we get further from the erroneous idea that the brain is static, or fixed. "Now we know that tasks like learning a language or playing a new instrument change the brain," Gorman says. And although...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't want to have to go out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...that "the Dumpster may be filled with bricks or other unfriendly materials." In the chapter describing how to wrestle free from an alligator, the authors explain that you should tap the creature on the snout "if its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb...
...neither candidate is going out on a limb. Experts say each candidate's proposals closely resemble the other's--and the current administration's policies...
...Lion King, it doesn't break new theatrical ground--not even for the pyramid, whose only remnant is a laser triangle glimpsed briefly in the second act. But on its own terms, Aida is a big, bright, ingeniously staged show that--not going too far out on a limb here--should be Broadway's next monster...