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...where gunmen and tanks forged a new, terrifying chapter in the long wars of the Middle East. The alley was just three feet wide before the Israeli army sent its heavily armored Caterpillar D-9 down what is now a rutted track; as you walk along it, up a mild gradient toward Hospital Street, your feet raise little puffs of dust from the rubble of what were once concrete homes. The path is covered with the litter of war--broken sea-green ceramic tiles, a punctured cooking-gas cylinder, a thin foam mattress, a blond-haired baby doll...
What's truly novel about this project is the way the rat controllers issue their instructions. By tapping a keyboard, they send signals via radio waves to electrodes implanted in the animal's brain: a mild jolt to neurons that sense the right whiskers means "turn right"; a zap to the left-whisker neurons means "go left." The surprise was how easy this was to do. Neurophysiologists have long dreamed of building artificial limbs with tactile feedback that would be sufficiently sensitive to tell a user when a hand is grasping a barbell tightly enough to keep it from falling...
When Tommy turned 8, his parents finally learned what was wrong. Their bright little boy, a psychiatrist informed them, had a mild form of autism known as Asperger syndrome. Despite the fact that children with Asperger's often respond well to therapy, the Barretts, at that moment, found the news almost unbearable...
Pereira said the change in the body’s ability to use insulin, caused by obesity, is what often leads to Type 2 diabetes. That is the mild form of non-insulin dependant diabetes that is characterized by glucose intolerance, rather than the more severe Type 1 diabetes which is characterized by an inability to produce insulin...
...according to Brother Curtis Almquist, who is the mild-mannered, bespectacled superior of the monastery, the typical life of a monk is not one that lacks intensity. The monks have five prayer gatherings each day. Each monk also spends one hour in early morning meditation in his individual cell, which is a little smaller than the average Harvard single bedroom. Guest rooms, which are similar to the monks’ living quarters, are available to any layperson who desires to spend up to a week living a life of quiet reflection. The walls of each room are bare except...