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By Don C. Reed Every so often, a bill comes up so important it may touch all our lives. Such a bill is Proposition 50: the Election Rigging Response Act (ERRA). Although its fate will be decided by a California vote, its effect may be felt across the nation, and...
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By Don C. Reed It seemed harmless enough, at first. President Trump ordered Texas Governor Greg Abbot to redraw his state’s voting map — to get him five more Republican-controlled voting districts. Trump said he was only looking for “a very simple redrawing: we pick...
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By Don C. Reed March 1, 2002, opening day of the Roman Reed lab at the University of California at Irvine. I held in my hands a laboratory rat which had been paralyzed, but which walked again. Under its sleek white coat, I felt tiny muscles struggling to be free. The...
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By Don C. ReedAmong young people, Traumatic Brain Injury Injury (TBI) (1) is the largest cause of death and disability. Among the old, TBI is also very common, more than cancers of the brain, breast, colon, lung and prostate — put together. Like a bullet fired into a...
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By Don C. ReedOne hot Summer morning years ago, I rode in the back of a truck to the strawberry fields, to earn money to buy a ring for my 8thgrade girlfriend.It was not easy. Bending over to pluck berries from the ground brought stabbing pain in my back: not muscular...
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By Don C. ReedOne hot Summer morning years ago, I rode in the back of a truck to the strawberry fields, to earn money to buy a ring for my 8thgrade girlfriend.It was not easy. Bending over to pluck berries from the ground brought stabbing pain in my back: not muscular...
