[Editors] fascinating first sentence

[Terry Hill]

acupuncture gone horribly wrong?

At 01:29 PM 2/2/2005 -0500, Debbie Levey wrote:
> From the Guardian Weekly, Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2005, p. 11
>
>Headline: China takes lead on stem cells; scientists amazed by work to
>treat damaged nerves
>
>First sentence: "When Jianhong Zhu treated a patient with a chopstick
>lodged in his brain, not an uncommon injury in China, the utensil
>ultimately helped repair the damage it had caused."
>
>The rest of the article covered developments in stem cell research in 
>China and Japan, but did not answer the  pressing questions of how the 
>chopstick got into the brain and why this is not an uncommon injury in China.
>
>Debbie
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