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...never before, accepted truths are becoming less true. The brain, we're finding, is indeed a bordered organ, subdivided into zones and functions. But the lines are blurrier than we ever imagined. Lose your vision, and the lobe that processed light may repurpose itself for other senses. Suffer a stroke in the area that controls your right arm, and another area may take over at least some...
...later leaves in a dispute over our hero's risky ways. He switches from cotton to polyester and makes his fortune, creating India's biggest company, in part by encouraging the rising middle class to invest in it (tens of thousands flock to his shareholder meetings). He suffers a stroke that paralyzes his right hand, but his drive is unimpaired, his success unimpeded...
Israeli public discourse inclines more towards irreverence than sentimentality, so it should come as no surprise that comedians are making hay out of the one-year anniversary of the stroke that felled former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, leaving him in a coma from which he has shown no sign of recovering...
...Lebanon, Sharon would probably have refrained from Olmert's blundering all-out attack last summer. But it was on Sharon's watch that Hizballah built up its defenses and smuggled missiles from Iran and Syria. Sharon might not recognize the country he left behind when he suffered his stroke a year ago, but many Israelis are coming around to the belief that Sharon's decisions have weakened their country's security...
...appears salvageable even in the eyes of leaders like Muttlag who are staking their careers, and sometimes their lives, on the eventual success of a civilian government. With so little material left to work with in Baghdad, many in Iraq are looking to Washingto n for a bold political stroke that would sweep the sitting government from power as more U.S. troops roll...