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...Even though S.R.D.'s visual acuity topped out at 20/200--considered legally blind in the U.S.--her brain had, in defiance of theory, learned to interpret visual information. One year after surgery, she could recognize her family's faces and identify objects. And that's a very big deal. Dr. Suma Ganesh, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital in Old Delhi, India, used to believe that operating on blind children past the critical period was hopeless. But Project Prakash showed her that just isn't the case. "Even if a blind kid, after an operation, manages...
...sometimes Suma, 16, and Usha, 13, find their grandparents' sense of tradition onerous. The girls like to wear jeans and shorts, which Rajaram abhors. Then Meera steps in as interpreter. "I tell them, 'Your grandparents' definition of pretty is someone in a sari and not someone in short shorts. You've got to remember where your grandparents come from.'" So far, the disputes have been trivial. But trouble could erupt if the girls decide, say, to marry outside their ethnic group. Rajaram is already steeling himself for the battle--and his likely defeat. "I'll try to talk them...
...heart donations are possible because death is pronounced when brain activity ceases.) Dr. Torao Tokuda, chairman of the Tokushu-Kai Medical Corp., owner of 40 hospitals and 70 clinics in Japan, plans to spread the Batista procedure to all his facilities. Says one of his top surgeons, Dr. Hisayoshi Suma: "This surgery is of great importance worldwide...
Scandal-plagued politicians are not the only objects of Suma Ching Hai's charity. Whenever there is a natural disaster, she is there--with money. She says she has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to victims of the 1993 Mississippi River floods and to survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing. "Before we enter the spiritual world, we are in the mundane world," she says. "If the Buddha isn't a helpful Buddha, he is a boring Buddha. He is a useless Buddha...
...core of Suma Ching Hai's teachings is what she calls Quan Yin meditation. It involves no chanting, no mantras, but a "contemplation of the inner sound stream," as her disciple and U.S. spokesperson Pamela Millar describes it. The Supreme Master's lectures are laced with Taoist, Buddhist and Christian references (she likes the Bible verse "In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was God.") She denies she is an incarnation of the Chinese goddess of mercy. Still, her publications and Website always capitalize pronouns that refer to her. Suma Ching Hai simply says she is enlightened...