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Could you really inject someone else's memories? Could your brain be kept alive after your head is removed from your body? And will kissing enough frogs really see you find your prince? One book answers all these questions. NICK MORRISON reports
AT birth, Lucia Zarate weighed just under two and a half pounds. Today, a premature baby at that weight would have a good chance of survival, but Lucia was not premature. Instead, she suffered a severe form of dwarfism, which not only meant she started off small, but she was unable to grow and put on weight.See the full content of this document
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Why We Blush When We Kiss Frogs
By the time she was 17, her weight had barely doubled, to just over four and a half pounds. She was heaviest when she was 20, at 13lbs. At two feet two and a half inches tall, Lucia was believed to be the smallest human ever to have lived.
The basis of dwarfism, commonly called dysplasia, is genetic, but nutrition can also play a role. Living in poverty in Mexico in the latter half of the 19th century, Lucia's diet may have contributed t...See the full content of this document
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