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...incidents it offers, when we come to the last day of school, the students are hard-pressed to recall anything useful or even memorable that they learned. They have, in effect, been babysat, kept off the streets. We gain the strongest impression of the education machinery taking a little rest before clanking onward, in the largest sense indifferent to the needs of its charges, the best efforts of its functionaries. We guess that the smart kids will come out all right finally. We also guess that none of the troubled ones will suddenly become untroubled, saved somehow from mediocrity...
...facial transplant, lifting a face nearly whole from a recently deceased donor and grafting it onto an anonymous woman who had suffered extreme disfigurement to more than 80% of her own face. Her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin are all that remain of her original features. The rest is entirely new - and so, the doctors say, is the life that has been restored to her. (See TIME's Top 10 scientific discoveries...
...will be a year or more before sensation and muscle control will be achieved, and it is by no means certain that either one will be fully restored. And the patient must overcome the always-present risk of tissue rejection, for which she will require immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. "You can see rejection immediately if it begins," says Siemionow. "It will appear as a rash or redness or swelling. So far, none of this has happened with this patient...
...ignorance and intolerance. I now live in northern California, so I have seen both sides of the coin as far as U.S. culture and attitudes go. I don't think Bush ever took the opportunity in all his travels to see America or, for that matter, the rest of the world. He was never in touch. Thank you for your piece. It struck a major chord with me. Gregory S. McCoy, Guerneville, Calif...
...race took an unusual turn late last night when Flores’ campaign was suspended for the rest of the election—which ended at noon today—for forging a signature on its staff list. But the Flores campaign responded that the student whose signature was forged, Black Men’s Forum President Sangu J. Delle ’10, had given electronic permission for someone else to sign for him since he was out of the country, so the signature was made in “good faith...