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  1. Blind people excel at serial recall

    Blind people recall strings of words better than sighted people do, perhaps because of their greater reliance on memory in dealing with the tasks of daily life.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Restoring Scents

    Experimental treatments may activate the sense of smell in people who can detect few or no odors.

    By Janet Raloff

  3. 19852

    This article concerning schizophrenia in Palau reported a high incidence of the disorder among first- and second-generation immigrants to the West from developing countries. Could the phenomenon of relatively successful immigrants to the West (or their children) being drawn into acts of terrorism be a manifestation of schizophrenia? Robert E.