Device Lets Paralyzed Write With Their Eyes in Paris
French researchers unveil a gaze driven device to aid quadriplegics unable to speak. A laser camera tracks eye movement across a keyboard, feeding letters into a computer for instant on screen text. The system promises control of TV lights radio and internet, reducing isolation for patients with only eye movement.
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Japanese Women Rely on Advice Column S Life Guide
A Tokyo based life guide column in Yomiuri Shimbun offers blunt guidance to distressed readers. Women write about abusive marriages and debt and are advised to prioritize children and household stability before personal change. The column, active since 1914, receives about 5000 letters yearly, with seven columnists including a lawyer and a psychiatrist.
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Saeko Saegusa
Yomiuri Shimbun News
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