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Researchers Identify Phantom Limb Brain Activity

mmmscience writes "Researchers in Switzerland think they had identified the regions of the brain responsible for creating phantom limbs and the senses that go along with them. Scientists studied a stroke victim who claimed that the phantom limb of her now-paralyzed left arm could do a number of things a normal limb could do, including 'scratch an itch on her head, with an actual sense of relief.'"

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  1. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wrong forum mush, tell it to someone that gives a shit

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  2. Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

    Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary

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    Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds
    The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass
    China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar
    China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency
    What are the reserve currencies?
    Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors
    Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people'
    Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats
    Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers
    A False Choice
    Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com
    Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands
    Socialising and Privatising
    Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses
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    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund

    - Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.

    - President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organization known as IRGUN who is obsessed with gun control and compulsory service to the country in a capacity which he has yet to define. (Think brown-shirts.) Barack is intimately connected to disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat). Barack Obama is also connected to William Ayers (who ghost-wrote his books); Ayers is a man who promotes the concept that civilian co