Paul, it’s an amazing story but I think cnn.com buried the lede. Perhaps the information would be too devastating to the cause of the let’s-starve-them-to-death crowd.

Near the bottom of the story was this:

Dr. Rose Lynn Sherr of New York University Medical Center said when patients recover from brain injuries, they usually do so within two or three years.

“It’s almost unheard of after 10 years,” she said, “but sometimes things do happen and people suddenly improve and we don’t understand why.”