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...about 110 spectators, with space for another 30 in the white-paneled balcony. The seats are packed every day, mostly with reporters from as far away as Tokyo and London; there are a few students, and one white-bearded eccentric called Prophet Dan, who claims he could cure the stricken girl. Dominating the courtroom, just behind the witness stand, is a huge (3 ft. by 5 ft.) diagram of the human brain, with all the parts clearly labeled-cerebellum, brain stem, pons, medulla...
...illiterate, which puts them in the running for least educated people in the world. Although Central Africa has the distinction of being the world's most unhealthy region, health conditions in Bangladesh are none too good--the delta is the place where cholera and smallpox originated and is regularly stricken with diseases the West forgot about centuries ago, such as bubonic plague. A mother can expect at least two of her children to die (ever wonder why they have so many kids?) and has a pretty good shot at dying in childbirth herself, or from its inevitable complications. This...
Mora's chronology of the 1930s is unnecessarily obscured from his viewers by the lack of any narration or subtitles identifying the scenes. Most viewers are hard pressed to identify the shock-stricken father of John Dillinger being interviewed after his son's violent death at the hands of J. Edgar Hoover's newly armed G-men. The significance of many of the scenes is reduced by their brevity and the breakneck pace at which Mora carries the viewer through the period...
...night last April, Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, went to bed saying she was not feeling well. She never woke up. Stricken with a still undiagnosed malady (perhaps the result of mistakenly mixing a tranquilizer and drinks), she has remained in a coma ever since. One side of her permanently damaged brain shows almost no sign of functioning while the other gives off only slight but steady signals visible on an electroencephalogram. Last week, unwittingly, Karen Ann became the focus of the continuing legal-medical-ethical controversy over how to define death...
Every summer and fall, parts of the U.S. are stricken by outbreaks of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, caused by insect-borne viruses. But this year's outbreak may prove to be the worst in a decade. Hundreds of suspected cases of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE)* have been reported by health officials in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and New Jersey. The disease has reached epidemic proportions in two other states. In Mississippi, encephalitis has afflicted some 200 people and killed more than 30. In Illinois, the disease has struck more than...