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...Summers and others say Harvard will need to press to stay ahead. The medical school is in the process of building an enormous new research building to be shared between basic scientists at the school itself and faculty at the affiliated hospitals...
Shops that stay open around the clock are traditionally associated with life's basic necessities - bread, say, or gasoline. But over the past three years in Prague, a different kind of convenience store has mushroomed. Specializing in the resale of mobile phones, these outlets offer not only 24-hour service, but inviting price tags, with the bulk of their handsets in the $100 range. Police believe most of the phones are stolen, but complicated Czech proof-of-ownership laws render them almost powerless to prosecute. And in a country where almost 11,000 cell phones were reported stolen...
...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
...projected images - an X or an H, for example, or basic forms such as blocks and circles, tables and chairs - contain live pixels that the video camera registers as a flash when it passes over them. As the camera crosses a live pixel, it sends a signal to the transmitter, which passes it on to the stimulator, which sends an electrical charge to Marie's optic nerve. The result: Marie sees a series of flashes that join up to form recognizable shapes...
...skeptics rushed to interpret the fierce battles in two West Bank refugee camps on Thursday as having eclipsed the ray of hope sent by Abdullah's proposal. Supporters, however, will see the latest escalation of violence in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 as underscoring the prince's basic argument. Israelis and Palestinians may be fighting more fiercely than ever, but to the extent that they're talking about a long-term peace, the discussion has been dominated this week by Prince Abdullah's proposal...