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Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
WARREN BUFFETT Mickey Mouse merger boosts his ABC stock $400 million...
HOSPITALIZED. MICKEY MANTLE, 63, Baseball Hall of Famer, this time for anemia caused by chemotherapy; in Dallas. Barely two months after undergoing a liver transplant, Mantle revealed he had begun treatment for cancer that had spread from his diseased liver to his lung (had the cancer been detected earlier, the donor liver would have gone to someone else...
Classes will be interspersed with guest lecturers, such as former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Program Chair Mickey Edwards...
Even when a limb is gone, its place on the mental map remains, and the neurons formerly responsible for processing sensations from it occasionally fire at random-the sensory equivalent of Mickey Mouse hallucinations. The brain also attempts to make up for the deficit physically, perhaps, suggests Ramachandran, by sprouting new sets of connections. Because neurons that process information from the arm are near those that handle the face, for example, these new connections can cause a blindfolded patient to think a gentle touch on the face is really a touch on a missing fingertip. Says Ramachandran: "Reorganization can occur...