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Doctors Coax Man's Body to Grow New Brain WASHINGTON, D.C. - An experiment at the National Institutes of Health marks the first attempt to get the body to grow its own brain replacement. It's called Cognitive Angiogenesis, a field that has no less ambitious a goal than to eliminate idiocy as we know it. "No matter what you teach some people," explained Dr. Ryan Winge of NIH, "They are still functionally 'ignorant'. While this has been attributed to laziness or poor teaching, we now know that more often than not, the subject simply has a poorly formed brain. Terry is...

Final 1st 2nd 3rd 4th T Virginia Tech (3) 0 7 0 0 7 West Virginia 14 0 14 0 28 Box Score | Play-by-Play | GameCast Passing: Marshall (W Virginia) 162 yds Receiving: Garvin (W Virginia) 117 yds Rushing: Wilson (W Virginia) 176 yds

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former U.S. president and Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carter said on Friday that guaranteeing North Korea's security was critical to solving the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program. He also slammed the stance of the administration of President Bush, which has branded the North Korean government part of an "axis of evil." Carter visited North Korea in 1994 during a previous crisis over the communist state's nuclear program and negotiated a deal with then-leader Kim Il-sung in which Pyongyang confirmed its willingness to freeze its nuclear program and resume talks with the United States. He told a news...

Peace core: North Texans head to rally From '60s pacifists to teens, they're DC bound and determined 01/18/2003 By MARK WROLSTAD / The Dallas Morning News Bob Dennis was there among the demonstrators 40 years ago with Martin Luther King Jr., trying to push America and its government along the road toward freedom and opportunity. The veteran human rights worker from Dallas had wanted to be there again this weekend with demonstrators, trying to slow America and its government on the road toward war with Iraq. Mr. Dennis won't be there, but 54 people are enduring an around-the-clock bus...