The Berlin Patient

In 1995 this guy who was living in Berlin had HIV/AIDS and had developed leukaemia, he was involved i none of the first ever bone marrow transplants to try and cure his HIV/AIDS. It had worked, and very quickly too. He was on a HIV medicine and he stopped taking it after he got the transplant and he was "cured" of the HIV/AIDS virus. Now his leukaemia came back later, so he got another transplant from the same donor, and he became cured. During the past years researchers have been avoiding the term cure because they could never defiantly say they found a functional cure. The cure is still under research now and more trails need to be done. They are not sure weather its the bone marrow or the patient that is the key to the cure.  

One Leg Super Star

Adam is eight years old, when he was born he had cancer in his left leg. He went through several cycle of intense chemotherapy. The cancer would not go away, the Benders had a choose keep fighting the cancer or amputate his leg. Four days after his birthday doctors amputated his leg. The day after he was released from the hospital he was standing up on one leg and laughing.  At the age of 3 he started to get into sports first soccer, he learned how to run with his crutches and kick the ball. He was an instant success on the field. He quickly became the leading scorer on the team, he became so good in fact that they had to switch him to a different league. he still was the best player out there. When he was six he took and interest in football, he wanted to join a flag league. The coaches came up with the idea of putting him in at quarterback in a shotgun snap. Adam was one the best his coaches have ever seen. In the spring he wanted to play baseball, but one of the coaches said that he plays on the team for the "handy cap". His mom did not like this, she talk to the league commissioner. He said he could play on a normal team. He learned to kneel on his one leg and he became the catcher. When he would hit he had no crutches so he would hop to first base then get his crutches. This kid on one leg is an all-around All Star.

Mind Reading

There is new technology using the MRI. The new type of MRI is called FMRI. They are setting up test where the subject is told a word and they think of that word. Then the computer takes images of the brain and then looks at the brain activity at that time the word was said. Then the computer can take that information and tell you what you were thinking. The big problem with this "mind reading" it weather it's the right thing to do. I can see how it would help with police and other law enforcement but if product producing companies were to have this at their disposal then they would everything we want. They could then take advantage of the costumers and that would lead to other ideas that companies have to lure us in. This will defiantly go to court because of the 5th amendment. We don't know if getting information directly from the brain is evidence like hair and blood, or because it come directly from the brain then it's a testimony. Its still very unclear at this point, but over the next five years this field will grow exponentially and it will become clearer weather what we can do and what we can not.     

Paul Allen

Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. When the first computer came out they had a code that they wanted to propose to the company that made the computer. They would write a piece of code that would send it to the next level. The company said yes if they could bring them the code in person. They spent the next few weeks creating and preparing the code but with not computer to test it on it was all or bust. Then Bill and Paul decided to send Paul only because Gates looked like a thirteen year old. When Paul arrived everything worked. Soon the next computer was born, and it was in high demand and was in every household. Bill was demanding more share of the company but he already owned over 60% of it and both Paul and Gates would not back down. They would have arguments that would last for hours and they would be screaming the whole time. On of the key things that separated him from gates was that he was not focused on one thing he had many interest. By the time Paul left Microsoft he was already worth over 40 billion dollars he had invested in many things, but ultimately like Gates he wants most of it to go to charity.

Ray Lewis

Ray Lewis grew up without a dad. He was heart broken, all he wanted was a father figure. Ray was always waiting for a father. He started to play football when he was six years old, his coaches were always telling him that he was great, but when he got home his mother was working three jobs. He had nobody to brag to, no one to tell what he did in practice. When in high school his coach showed him the year book from 1975 and in that book were the records all the records were held by his father. Ray was so angry that he promised   he would break all of the records his dad held, he did and everyday he trained harder and harder. Every time one of the records was broken he would take it home and scratch it up. Ray lived a tough life as a kid through high school in collage he and his father still had a hard time communicating their feelings about each other. When he was drafted in 96 by the ravens his father was disappearing and reappearing in his life often for money. His father had become a huge drug addict. It got so bad that finally Ray got a call about it and offered to pay for his rehab. His father said no he said that he had to start caring for him self along with his children. After almost 5 months of rehab he was released a new man. Then ray drove to his home and his father and he got into a car and just drove 6 hours north to where his fathers father was. All of that time Ray let his father speak his mind about everything, Ray just let him talk. Now both are back to terms with each other and are now truly father and son.

BlindSide

Charlie was born with sight, and after a while he fell down stairs and he began so lose his sight then doctors found out that he had a brain tumour the size of an orange. The tumour had been crushing his optic nerve which connects he eyes to his brain. He had to have six surgery's to have it removed and when that was done he was completely blind. His family never thought t hat he could play football but he went out for the seventh grade football team and made it. He gets help from the coaches and other players in practice, and during the games the "zebras" help him out to. During some games his opponents would not even be able to tell if he is blind. He hits just as hard as everyone else on the field if not harder. When he asked his grandfather if he could go beyond playing football at the high school level he said that it would be almost impossible to do so. Charlie says that his greatest fear is getting his sight back, because when he went blind he now sees the world as a perfect place and getting his sight back would crush his perfect world. He also said that don't use a disability as a crutch use it to get up and run.  

Angle in the Outfield

Christina Green was a full on baseball player at age of 7. She was a person who could inspire people in her school and on the playing field. She was all ways with her mom who was a big supporter of Obama. When Gabriel Gifford came to Tuscan, AZ Christina wanted to go see her, but that that would change everybody's lives for ever. For that was the day when Gifford was shot along with many other people who died, among them was 9 year old Christina Green. This devastated everybody who knew her. All of her team mates were struck at the lost of Christina, at the day of the viewing almost 1800 people came, along with all of her team mates. On opening day in May a ceremony was held for Christina, the renamed the field in memory of Christina Green Green Field. Beyond the field past the fence is a statue of an angle made of metal from both ground zero, and the Pentagon. She will be remembered in everyone's heart forever.