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...about as large as a dime in the crown of his head. Rezai then threads a wire just 4 microns thick--or four-thousandths of a millimeter--into Stipp's brain. Guided in part by CT scans and in part by real-time readings of electrical activity that the probe encounters as it passes different neural structures, surgeons aim for the subthalamic nucleus (STN), an olive-size clump of tissue deep in the basal ganglia that helps govern motor control. For much of the morning, Stipp's right arm has been shaking violently enough to rock the table...
...When the probe hits home, Rezai asks Stipp to perform a few tasks. Can he touch his index fingers together? Raise a cup to his lips? Sign his name? Stipp can do none of it. Then Rezai sends a few volts through the wire. Stipp's tremors calm. His index fingers meet. He signs the paper. "It's been a long time since I did that," he says wonderingly...
...marked by the constellation Eridanus. That seemed odd, since radio galaxies tend to be spread about pretty evenly. Then they took a look at an entirely different set of data: microwaves emitted shortly after the Big Bang, as seen by the WMAP (or, NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotopy Probe) satellite. There was a "cold" spot in the microwaves right at the same place where there weren't enough radio galaxies...
...Still, the burial calmed passions. And the termination of the murder probe meant the rejection of pleas of the Romanov relatives, now settled in Europe, to have the Imperial family formally recognized as victims of political repression. A Moscow court last turned down such a plea in June...
...Russian law spells out considerable compensation for victims of political repression. And the Romanovs' properties were vast. The re-opened probe may facilitate their formal recognition as repression victims - or political rehabilitation, to put in Russian legalese. What if the heirs claim the Hermitage Museum - once the Imperial Winter Palace - or the Kremlin? In fact, Nicholas listed himself in the 1897 Russian census as "The Master of the Russian Land." Would this official and legal record give the heirs grounds to claim the entire country back...