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...thumb in an industrial accident, bone cells were taken from his forearm, placed on a thumb-shaped scaffolding made of coral and implanted on the digit. Now the coral is dissolving, new bone tissue is growing and the patient is able to write, grasp and otherwise carry on with normal activities...
...prepare for the season, the rugby players follow a heavy practice regimen. Intense practices are necessary to build endurance because the game never stops moving. It is normal for players to run and tackle for up to 25 minutes at a time. Often the action begins on one side of the field and rapidly swings to the other...
...RUSSIA Seal Cubs Face Mass Starvation Freak weather has stranded hundreds of thousands of baby seals on ice floes in the White Sea. Russian scientists said that unusually strong winds had prevented up to 200,000 baby harp, or Greenland, seals from floating to their normal feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. "Their mass death from hunger is inevitable," said a Polar Institute scientist, adding that even if some cubs could be saved, no money was available for their rescue...
...also gives us an experimental handle to investigate the neural basis of more elusive phenomena like metaphor." It's a fair bet, he argues, that synesthesia is caused by genetic mutations that create dense neural connections between areas of the brain that process sensory information. Ramachandran hypothesizes that in normal brains, a handful of these links might play a role in the formulation of metaphors, which often blend sensory elements of language (consider "sharp cheese" or "bitter cold"). That, he says, may explain why synesthesia is far more common among novelists, painters and poets than in the general population...
...years ago. A comedy so funny and so beloved that the network left it off its schedule all last year. Commonly thought to be canceled - though it's been on hiatus before - it keeps coming back, like some fat, addle-brained and unkillable Rasputin. At least it wasn't "Normal, Ohio...