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Another study published in the Lancet in October found that gene therapy had restored partial vision to five children and seven adults with a congenital eye disease that causes blindness. And a paper published earlier this month in Science reported the successful treatment of two children with ALD, or adrenoleukodystrophy - a neurological disorder that leads to progressive brain damage and death in two to five years...
...also got help from American intelligence officials when they went to New Jersey to trace calls routed through a U.S.-based internet phone service. The Indian government has presented several dossiers of evidence to Pakistani authorities to prosecute defendants there. On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan indicted seven people for planning the attacks, including Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, a leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based Islamist group and the suspected mastermind of the attacks...
...final six minutes of the period, Harvard appeared at the foul line five times–picking up seven points from the stripe–to begin closing the double-digit scoring...
Stepping back a bit, I do see a metapattern that extends over the 40 years since Richard Nixon's Southern strategy began the drift toward more ideological political parties: Democrats have tough first years in the presidency. Of the past seven Presidents, the two Bushes rank at the top in popularity after one year, while Obama and Bill Clinton rank at the bottom, with Jimmy Carter close by. There is a reason for that. Democrats come to office eager to govern the heck out of the country. They take on impossible issues, like budget-balancing and health care reform. They...
...Hajj is circling the Kaaba, an immense black cube, spiritually considered by Muslims to be the center of the world, and literally located in the center of the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca. During the Hajj, vast swells of worshippers seeking forgiveness circle the Kaaba counter-clockwise, seven times. Completion of all of the mandated rituals is believed the guarantee the pilgrim a place in heaven as well as the title of hajji (literally, one who has performed the Hajj) - coveted and admired in Muslim communities around the world...