Word: processing
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Once parents begin to entertain the option of holding on to some part of a child, why would the reverse not be true? "Bill" is a guidance counselor in Southern California, a fortysomething expectant father who has been learning everything he can about the process of cloning. But it is not a lost child he is looking to replicate. He is interested in cloning his mother, who is dying of pancreatic cancer. He has talked to her husband, his siblings, everyone except her doctor--and her, for fear that it will make her think they have given up hope...
...that Sharon will encounter in his battle to form a broad coalition, which Israelis call a "national unity government." The 72-year-old Prime Minister-elect desperately wants Labor in his coalition to provide a stable majority and forestall international concerns that the old general will kill the peace process. Labor leaders, however, are in disarray after a humiliating performance at the polls--Sharon got 62% of the popular vote, an Israeli record. Without Labor support, Sharon may have to turn hard right to form a ruling coalition. "Sharon wants a unity government," says Silvan Shalom, a Likud powerbroker. "With...
Sharon is sending envoys to Washington this week to explain his peace plans to the new Bush Administration. "We intend to show that Israel needs a security process as well as a peace process," says Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is one of Sharon's messengers. The Sharon "security process" will probably aim to ink another interim accord and leave the issues that toppled Barak for much, much later. Says Gold: "To continue with the old diplomatic approach would be like hammering square pegs into round holes." Sharon might be forgiven for thinking...
...stopped for as long as two hours while a heart-lung machine takes over the job of oxygenating the blood and pumping it through the body. Studies have shown that microscopic bubbles of air or tiny bits of fat and plaque are often loosed into the bloodstream in the process. Even if they are too small to trigger a full-scale stroke, they may cause minor damage in the cerebral tissue...
...reputation is undeserved. Fibromyalgia is a real medical syndrome that is being taken more seriously these days, thanks to a study out of the University of Alabama that has found what may be the underlying causes: a reduced blood flow to the parts of the brain that process pain and twice the normal level of a brain chemical called substance P, which helps nervous-system cells send pain messages to the brain. Not only do patients now have scientific support to prove they're not crazy but doctors also have more reason to take their complaints seriously...