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The doctors cautioned that their results, reported in today's issue of the journal Nature, would not apply to patients like Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose life became a sociopolitical flash point.
She was in a persistent vegetative state, whereas the male patient — whose name was withheld — had clung to consciousness and had large regions of his brain intact. Indeed, Schiavo was given a similar implant that had no effect.
Implants give brain-injured man new life
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Think of all the dangerous characters lurking around our schoolchildren these days: With all these threats to the safety and well-being of their students, guess who school authorities in the state of Florida have targeted with more than one prosecution? The answer: Two member of the Gideons International, those dangerous subversives who give away Bibles to anyone interested – including students walking to and from school. ~Snip~
That might have been the end of it – and the whole thing could have been chalked up to some bad decisions by inexperienced local officials. But this is Florida – the state that gave Terri Schiavo the death penalty for her inability to eat without assistance. This is the state that might still be counting and recounting hanging chads if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't intervene.
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