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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired August 26, 2003 - 05:45 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now though to check the headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Hala Gorani live in London.
Good morning -- Hala.
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, on the front pages of all the broad sheets, the so-called serious papers in the U.K., the Bombay bomb blast, which killed 45 people, at least. Many of the papers covering this asking will this lead to a new cycle of violence, will this lead to retaliatory revenge attacks against Muslims in India, asking those questions.
Now in other papers, and especially the tabloids and papers such as "The Daily Mail," we're seeing a variety of stories. "The Daily Mail," for instance, which is the right leaning daily paper, continuing its full-on assault against the Blair government's handling of Iraq. Saying that the Ministry of Defense, the British army is selling Rovers that are air conditioned and armored for about $5,000 while they are asking their soldiers on the ground to travel around in rented vehicles that are not armored, not air conditioned and therefore, put the lives of British soldiers at risk. You'll remember, of course, that this weekend three British soldiers were killed. And according to "The Daily Mail," they could have been saved had they been traveling in one of those armored cars.
Now many of the newspapers are releasing the results of a survey by neuroscientists who are studying the effects of how a man has coped with recovering his eyesight 43 years after having initially lost it at the age of 3 as a young toddler. It's a story of Mike May.
I found it personally fascinating, because it gives you an idea of how our perception of things shapes our visual recognition of them. And Mike May used to be a championship blind skier. When he recovered his sight, he was incapable of skiing with his eyes open. He can't recognize his wife unless she speaks. He was so used to identifying things with touch, smell or with the feel of it and the sound of it. But now that his sight is recovered, it takes him a very long time to get used to recognizing things visually. So that was a very interesting article to read in "The Guardian."
COSTELLO: That's amazing. So just in asking you more details about this, so he was a great skier while blind, but I mean can he stand up on skies and just ski like an amateur, per se, or he can't ski at all? GORANI: From what I understand from the article, he can ski with his eyes open. But when he is going down a difficult slope, he closes his eyes because he had gotten so used to skiing blind over four decades that it's something that he can't get used to right away. He's learning what the shape of a tree is, for instance.
So he's saying the color green is something that we all know what the color green is. Over four years, he only had to imagine what the color green is. So when he's finally seeing it now, it's something he has to relearn. Somebody had to tell him this is green, this is blue, this is a tree, this is your wife. So year after year, he is getting used to recognizing things visually rather than having to take them in through other senses. It's a fascinating read. His diary is published in "The Guardian" in the months following the recovery of his eyesight three-and-a-half years ago.
COSTELLO: An amazing story. Hala Gorani live from London this morning.
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Aired August 26, 2003 - 05:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now though to check the headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Hala Gorani live in London.
Good morning -- Hala.
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, on the front pages of all the broad sheets, the so-called serious papers in the U.K., the Bombay bomb blast, which killed 45 people, at least. Many of the papers covering this asking will this lead to a new cycle of violence, will this lead to retaliatory revenge attacks against Muslims in India, asking those questions.
Now in other papers, and especially the tabloids and papers such as "The Daily Mail," we're seeing a variety of stories. "The Daily Mail," for instance, which is the right leaning daily paper, continuing its full-on assault against the Blair government's handling of Iraq. Saying that the Ministry of Defense, the British army is selling Rovers that are air conditioned and armored for about $5,000 while they are asking their soldiers on the ground to travel around in rented vehicles that are not armored, not air conditioned and therefore, put the lives of British soldiers at risk. You'll remember, of course, that this weekend three British soldiers were killed. And according to "The Daily Mail," they could have been saved had they been traveling in one of those armored cars.
Now many of the newspapers are releasing the results of a survey by neuroscientists who are studying the effects of how a man has coped with recovering his eyesight 43 years after having initially lost it at the age of 3 as a young toddler. It's a story of Mike May.
I found it personally fascinating, because it gives you an idea of how our perception of things shapes our visual recognition of them. And Mike May used to be a championship blind skier. When he recovered his sight, he was incapable of skiing with his eyes open. He can't recognize his wife unless she speaks. He was so used to identifying things with touch, smell or with the feel of it and the sound of it. But now that his sight is recovered, it takes him a very long time to get used to recognizing things visually. So that was a very interesting article to read in "The Guardian."
COSTELLO: That's amazing. So just in asking you more details about this, so he was a great skier while blind, but I mean can he stand up on skies and just ski like an amateur, per se, or he can't ski at all? GORANI: From what I understand from the article, he can ski with his eyes open. But when he is going down a difficult slope, he closes his eyes because he had gotten so used to skiing blind over four decades that it's something that he can't get used to right away. He's learning what the shape of a tree is, for instance.
So he's saying the color green is something that we all know what the color green is. Over four years, he only had to imagine what the color green is. So when he's finally seeing it now, it's something he has to relearn. Somebody had to tell him this is green, this is blue, this is a tree, this is your wife. So year after year, he is getting used to recognizing things visually rather than having to take them in through other senses. It's a fascinating read. His diary is published in "The Guardian" in the months following the recovery of his eyesight three-and-a-half years ago.
COSTELLO: An amazing story. Hala Gorani live from London this morning.
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