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...right pinky. Not knowing what caused it, Halper kept right on typing. Within half an hour her right hand and arm were numb. In less than a month, she was effectively disabled on both sides -- unable to turn a doorknob, tie her shoelaces, button her clothes or brush her teeth without excruciating pain...
Scores of students were forced to take showers and brush their teeth elsewhere. Most said they were a bit annoyed, but some found humor in their alternative attempts to maintain hygiene...
Though the mission was saved, Mir's brush with disaster fanned doubts about the fitness of Russia's space program. That is of no small concern to the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan, which have formed a partnership with Russia to build a new space station. In the first phase of the venture, the Europeans are scheduled to put an astronaut on Mir in October, and an American is supposed to go aboard next year...
...lendie (Lena M. Diethelm): Kathleen was my friend. She wasn't a saint, she was a scientist ... Watching her online sometimes was like watching a kid learning to ride a bike. She'd keep trying, she'd keep falling down, she'd scrape her virtual knees, brush them off and get right back on for the ride...
...same Dissent issue where Genovese's essay appears are six mostly negative reactions from academics. Alice Kessler- Harris of Rutgers University accuses Genovese of being as self-righteous as the radicals he criticizes. Sean Wilentz of Princeton University persuasively argues that Genovese has painted with too broad a brush and fails to credit those leftists -- including Dissent's founding editors -- who early on rejected Bolshevism and all its works. Robin D.G. Kelley of the University of Michigan argues that Genovese has a hidden agenda -- namely, to add the left's silence on Stalinism to the list of ideological crimes committed...