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...have over a number of years learned to be a little less direct. And I have certain misgivings about these human rights organizations and their activities. I see fundamental structural flaws in the way they operate. The way it's done is Mr X. says he is a victim of human rights violations. He reports that to an organization here or abroad. The organization has no means to verify the facts, but prints the allegations as allegations. Those who read those allegations do not read them as allegations they read them as facts. The other flaw is this attitude...
...Gaza How refreshing and indeed surprising to read Andrew Lee Butters' report "A Sort of Peace in Gaza" [Aug. 20]. For far too long, we in the Western world have been fed a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which Israel is portrayed as the victim of Palestinian obstinance and aggression without any questioning why Palestinians are so aggrieved. Those who cared to look beyond the rhetoric of U.S. and Israeli policy and familiarize themselves with the appalling injustice that has befallen the Palestinian people over the past 60 years could not fail to sympathize with their...
...huge for a person who was never supposed to manage anything like it again. And all of it is a result of the growing therapeutic science of deep-brain stimulation (DBS). Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic inserted a pair of fine wires into the mugging victim's brain last year, threading them down to the thalamus, a deep, intact structure that could, in theory, jump- start the surviving circuits in the damaged cerebral cortex above. Very low current was sent through the wires, stimulating the thalamus, which indeed awakened the higher brain...
...year-old mugging victim is nowhere near able to resume the life he had, but he has gone from minimal consciousness into what's known as a post-traumatic confusional state. What's more, he continues to improve even after the electrical stimulation is turned off, suggesting that the brain is recovering abilities on its own. "He'll potentially be able to perform self-care such as eating and brushing his hair," says Giacino, who, along with neurologist Nicholas Schiff of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, was part of the team that conducted the surgery...
...past, Democratic candidates have been quick to use GOP corruption scandals, such as the revelations about lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the investigation into Senator Ted Stevens, as evidence that there needs to be change in Washington. They even have cited former Florida representative Mark Foley, the victim of another sex scandal, for his abuse of power. But they seem to have drawn the line at politicizing Craig's scandal...