December 2010
“The hospital’s cavernous chapel is now filled with what looks like a giant sand dune of unshelled nuts. The hospital makes them into peanut butter that is mixed into patients’ breakfast porridge, spread on teatime snacks and melted into vegetables at dinnertime.”
—Zimbabwe’s Poor Barter Goods for Health Care - NYTimes.com
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US scientists have discovered a woman with a rare brain disease that makes her afraid of nothing – not a huge snake lurking near her children, not a knife to her throat, and certainly not a horror movie.
The woman cannot experience fear because of a condition that has destroyed the part of her brain – the amygdala – where researchers say they believe the feeling of fear is made.
” —Woman who knows no fear could offer brain clues - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos