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...that happen? Until recently, accepted wisdom was that spinal tissue can never regrow, but that's being rethought. McDonald has conducted studies with spine-injured rats in which some of the animals are given no therapy after injury and others are given exercise. When their cords are later examined, the stimulated animals show new cell growth at the site of the lesion. "We believe," says McDonald, "that we can induce selective and robust cell growth...
...Islamic law against adultery demands that a Nigerian woman, Amina Lawal, must be stoned to death because she made love to a man she cared about and bore his child [World, Sept. 2]. It seems ever more clear that the human family will never make the journey to wisdom while chained to the dogma of zealots. If the good, the tolerant, the compassionate and the god-free do not speak up soon, evil is going to win. But before it does, maybe somewhere there is someone who can speak loud enough to save the life of one baby's mother...
...Jordan's rich cultural heritage in the context of Lawrence's own journey through the desert to Aqaba. Starting with the mandatory daylong rounds of Petra's historical sights, Lawrence fans hit sacred ground at Wadi Rum. This desolate stretch of desert is home to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the range of mountains that provided the inspiration for Lawrence's autobiographical epic of the same name. Lawrence loved the stillness and raw, natural beauty of the desert. In the book, he recounts tales of his campaigns against a backdrop of evocative descriptions of the unforgiving landscape and the Bedouin...
...Terry McAuliffe, Democratic candidates are honing their speeches for a couple of key dates in the fall campaign season: on September 30th, for example, voters will start to receive retirement account statements in the mail. On October 4th and November 1st, the government releases the latest jobless figures. Conventional wisdom says that if the numbers are bad - as Democrats surreptitiously hope they will be - the GOP, as the party in power, stands to suffer at the hands of frustrated and angry voters...
Whatever happens, it won't happen right away. DSM-V will not be published before 2010, giving us plenty of time to ponder the wisdom of formally recognizing a new disease that people can prevent only by living alone in locked rooms that don't have telephones. Maybe the first Relational Disorder that we should be concerned about is the one between psychiatry and the public. --Reported by Sora Song/New York