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...have committed? There are many familiar King elements: gore ( in this regard a botched electrocution is the novel's tour de force), ambiguous supernatural powers, cruelty and revenge. Newcomers to King may be surprised to discover his fascination with bodily fluids other than blood (a bladder infection and a trouser wetting are key plot points). But the real shocker is that The Green Mile, with its doomed pet mouse and weepy, tender-hearted cons, is less a bold exercise in terror than a queer exercise in pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: STEPHEN KING: MONSTER WRITER | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...about one-third of them have regained some function. Keith Hayes, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, who has been involved in the trials, says, "We have seen improvements in sensation and motor function, reduced spasticity and reduced pain, and improvement in bowel, bladder and sexual functions." MS researchers may come up with yet another useful therapy for spinal-cord injuries. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Moses Rodriguez is testing the use of antibodies as catalysts for the making of myelin in MS patients. Antibodies with a low affinity for myelin-producing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...their own and having to use a ventilator. Doctors speculate that at high doses, MP no longer acts as a steroid but instead inhibits the breakdown of fats into the dangerous free radicals that are like acid to cell tissues. For basic activities such as breathing, controlling bowel and bladder movements and moving the arms and legs, a person may need only 8% to 10% of the estimated 800,000 spinal-cord nerves. "It's a source of great hope," says New York University's Dr. Wise Young, a distinguished researcher in the field, who is now working with Reeve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration approved a device which microwaves enlarged prostates to burn off extra tissue and relieve the pressure on the bladder and urethra. The procedure provides a safe alternative to surgery for millions of men who suffer from an uncomfortable -->