[Editors] fascinating first sentence

[Scott Campbell]

You don't know about this?  It comes from sticking chopsticks up your nose 
while waiting for the waiter to bring your food.  You've never encountered 
this problem?  Whazzamatter?  You don't go for Chinese?

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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