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    Weight or Flight?

    I saw the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly a few weeks ago and I’m still thinking about it — a sign for me of good movie. It is about the unfortunate stroke of Jean Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, which left him paralyzed and with “locked-in” syndrome at age 43 — unable to move except for his left eyelid. His speech therapist devised a way for him to communicate by blinking his eye when a certain letter was spoken as she ran down a list of most commonly used letters. Once the letter was established, she could guess what word he was trying to say and…

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