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...awful four months. You can drop the class and either doom yourself to a hellish semester of five classes later on or try to find a class you can pick up after the first midterm. Or you can refrain from the academic equivalent of shoving a spiky rod up your own ass and fill out that little pink “Petition To Change Grading Status To Or From Pass/Fail.” The choice is clear...
Marie started to lose her vision when a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa caused the rod and cone cells in her retina to degenerate. When rod and cone cells die off, the retina is rendered insensitive to light and the result is blindness. Marie's case followed the typical pattern. First her rod cells went, leaving only a slim tunnel of vision through which she could still manage to recognize objects and read with difficulty. But then as her cone cells failed, this last narrow window on the world snapped shut and she was left completely blind - even though...
...shoelace. It is connected to a thin cable that snakes its way from the optic nerve exiting the back of Marie's eye and weaves around the outside of her brain to the stimulator implanted in a small cavity in her cranium. The stimulator, which bypasses the damaged rod and cones cells to send electrical signals directly to the optic nerve, is operated by means of radio signals transmitted from the external video camera...
...Chicago this week, you'll still have to do business with one of those big, dumb dinosaurs we used to call the major airlines. For all of the red ink they've been spilling, Europe still needs its British Airways, KLMs and Lufthansas. The trouble, as British Airways ceo Rod Eddington will tell you, is that it just doesn't need so many of them. "If you look at North America, you have four or five full-service carriers," says the 52-year old Australian, who took over B.A. in 2000. "We've got three times that in Europe...
...repeal of the estate tax were selfish. A strong push for new regulation on corporate tax shelters went against the hopes of the business community. And as a chief architect of the administration’s 1995 bailout Mexico’s failing economy, Summers was often a lightening rod for criticism...