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...going to make this happen. It's a lifelong dream for people." David Horowitz, a 55-year-old investment manager from Irvine, California, couldn't agree more. "It's changed me. We're doing things we should have been doing 40 years ago in space. That's Burt's vision and Richard's vision - get a bunch of people up there and the perception will change...
...been born with severe cataracts. They were removed surgically when she was 12--and within a year, despite what neuroscientific dogma would have predicted, S.R.D. learned to see. Her case, described in the December issue of Psychological Science, is forcing scientists to rethink their long-held beliefs about vision. "There is a critical period for perfect acuity," says Pawan Sinha, associate professor of neuroscience at M.I.T. and a co-author of the paper. "But there is not a critical period for learning to do complex visual tasks...
...little hope, though, of restoring vision to children who were past the critical development period. While research with humans has been very limited, experiments with animals have shown that if you place a normal kitten, for example, in a completely dark chamber immediately after birth, the kitten will become irrevocably blind. As a result, doctors in developing nations are often reluctant to perform surgeries like cataract removals on children. The risks--infection, mostly--outweigh the meager rewards...
...without the bling, the violence, or the expletives. The idea of using hip hop as a medium for discourse concerning social injustice and as a means for promoting social change is not a new one. But X Plastaz is unique in that its message has not only a vision of general peace and social justice, but also a very particular cultural message. Even the group’s name has a message for Africa. The “X” in X Plastaz stands for all the social problems in Tanzania and, more broadly, the African continent...
...Forest” raised questions on the nature of God from the audience, and Mailer did not flinch from asserting his beliefs. “God is a creator who could succeed or fail,” Mailer said. “We are God’s vision.” However, he added that we posses full agency to direct this vision. Indeed, Mailer literally tried to incite controversy. Near the end of the event, he requested that the audience ask him a rude question. Subsequently, he was confronted by a woman about his controversial relationship with women...