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Most victims of paralysis retain, at the very least, the ability to communicate. Even with limbs, tongue, lips and vocal cords immobilized, patients can blink their eyes to answer yes or no. But for a few patients--such as those with advanced cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, in which the voluntary nervous system is utterly destroyed--even that minimal dialogue is impossible. These people are at the mercy of others in the deepest imaginable...
...defend Brown's star guard was theorder of the day for Delaney-Smith's troops.Redding oozes presence, and she made it knownearly on. With a lay-up, a pair of baselinejumpers and a three in Egelhoff's face, she scoredBrown's first nine points before Harvard had timeto blink...
Exhibit B--The Supporting Actress Nightmare: The list: Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench, Rachel Griffiths and Lynn Redgrave. What were they thinking? Judi Dench was her usual curmudgeon self as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, but blink and you miss her. Brenda Blethyn ruined Little Voice, and Bates overplayed Libby in Primary Colors. (And where's Lisa Kudrow for The Opposite of Sex?) But look at the nominees again for this category--you'll notice something very interesting...
...YORK: The 1998-99 NBA season is back on, sort of -- 50 or so games starting in February. Appropriately, neither side is claiming victory. "Did we blink? I guess we both blinked," players' union head Billy Hunter said Wednesday. Said NBA commissioner David Stern, after predicting that the NBA's Board of Governors would accept the agreement Thursday: "I will say that I am elated that we will be playing basketball this season." The terms of the deal indicate that both sides gained concessions, with the owners eking out a win at the negotiating table. But TIME senior business editor...
...years old the first time Master Georgie ordered me to stand stock still and not blink...Mr. Hardy didn't have to be told to keep still because he was dead." And with no further ado, British author Beryl Bainbridge presents the first morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George...