Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...
...Mandela can serve all those purposes, it is partly because for so long he remained an unknown quantity. Emerging from the enforced silence of a prison cell, he arrived in the U.S. more as a symbol of courage and hope than as a politician with well-known positions. Even when his positions were unequivocally stated, they were sometimes overlooked last week. New York Mayor David Dinkins could hail his guest as "a man of peace," a title that acknowledges Mandela's exemplary lack of bitterness toward his former captors, while sidestepping his refusal to disown violence as a means...
Stuck in a subterranean Miami jail cell and facing charges that could keep him imprisoned for life, Manuel Antonio Noriega would seem to be a beaten man. So much for appearances. According to federal law-enforcement officials, Noriega is fomenting trouble by penning political directives and having them faxed to his followers back home...
Unlike most other kinds of cells, the neurons that make up the adult central nervous system do not divide and multiply. Once they die, they cannot be replaced -- a fact that makes brain and spinal damage so devastating. But, in an unprecedented experiment, scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine chanced upon a kind of human brain cell that could be nourished and cultivated. The researchers have kept a laboratory culture of the neurons alive -- and multiplying -- for nearly two years. The new technique, reported last week in Science, should make it easier for scientists to study...
...again when it expired and has been held since without charge or trial in the Mikuyu prison near Zomba. In the early years of his detention, Munthali's jailers reportedly applied gasoline to his legs and ignited them, causing injuries that were not treated. Today he shares a single cell -- with a bucket for a toilet -- with some 30 other political prisoners...