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...several months now, West has cheerfully endured her role as the much praised new pet of that crows' chorus, the U.S. literary community. ("Come in. Just sit anywhere," she calls to autograph pilgrims at her front door, pausing in a phone conversation with a reporter. "Now, dear, where were we? Children. Yes, I should have had a dozen, but I couldn't have one. Children like me; I'm about their size.") Jacqueline Onassis, an editor at Doubleday and a summer resident of Martha's Vineyard, read the old writer's short pieces in the Vineyard Gazette, the island...
...girl was wheeled into an operating room at 7:30 on a Thursday morning. Dr. Peacock's team exposed the surface of her brain and applied electrodes to stimulate it and provide yet another map to the diseased areas. Surgeons played the pet scan, the mri and the new data over and over on video monitors; the readings on all three had to match before the cutting away of malfunctioning parts of the child's brain could begin. The incisions were delicate, the atmosphere tense and progress slow. Surgeons relieved one another, while gowned students observed intently and residents stood...
...finally begun to catch up with philosophy. Using sensitive electrodes inserted deep into the gray matter of test animals, researchers have watched vision as it percolates inward from the eye's retina to the inner brain. Powerful technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and positron-emission tomography (PET) have also provided a window on the human brain, letting scientists watch a thought taking place, see the red glow of fear erupting from the structure known as the amygdala, or note the telltale firing of neurons as a long-buried memory is reconstructed. "What's so exciting," says Patricia Churchland...
...covered. "We find," says Zeki, "that he is consciously aware of moving stimuli and of their direction. He will tell you that the bars on a TV screen are moving left or right, toward or away, and he gets it 100% correct every time." Furthermore, notes Zeki, PET scans show that the patient's perception of motion is accompanied by the appropriate activation of V5. So how does the signal travel? Zeki is convinced the answer lies in a secondary pathway, a kind of back road created to get around the damaged area...
President Clinton actually carried out his threat and cast his first veto, against a spending-cuts measure that would have stripped $16.4 billion from current expenditures. "I cannot in good conscience sign a bill that cuts education to save pet congressional projects," said the President. The Republican-sponsored legislation would have trimmed a host of social programs in the current budget while continuing to funnel funds for certain road and courthouse projects. Lacking the votes for an override, G.O.P. leaders said they would try to craft a compromise bill with the President...