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...action ranges across North America, France and darkest Russia, none of it convincingly in focus. In New Hampshire, for instance, Author Hyde has the Soviet bad guys, who are driving a small runabout, stop off at a farm to pick up a cord of wood, a quantity that would founder anything short of a sizable truck. Soviet village scenes do not seem any more real. The book's most enduring enigma is why, having equipped his tale with the scaffolding of romance, Hyde keeps his reunited lovers separate for all but a few exceedingly decorous pages...
...account, Goetz then walked over to Cabey, who was sprawled on the seat, perhaps playing possum. "You seem to be doing all right," Goetz said. "Here's another." That fifth and last bullet, one of two expanding dumdum slugs in the revolver, may have severed Cabey's spinal cord, paralyzing him from the waist down. In one of the case's many oddities, Flores disputes Goetz's account of what happened with Cabey. "He didn't shoot the kid a second time. He didn't say anything either...
...Figaro; after a long illness; in Armonk, N.Y. He found success quickly, with critically praised debuts at Europe's leading opera houses and New York City's Metropolitan. In 1960 he became the first American to sing Boris Godunov at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. In 1967 a paralyzed vocal cord cut short his career; he turned to arts administration, and was general director of the Washington Opera when a 1977 heart attack left him disabled...
Leading pediatric neurologists and neuroembryologists agree that until the third trimester of fetal development (24-36 weeks), the spinal cord is not far enough developed to pass messages to the brain, and the brain itself does not develop until then the cognitive structure needed to perceive pain or aggression or to perform "purposeful action." It is especially irresponsible for the narrator of the movie to assert that a 12-week fetus could experience pain. Dr. Edwin Myer, chairman of the department of pediatric neurology at the Medical Colege of Virginia, says "that the fetus feels pain is a totally ridiculous...
Polio paralyzes its victims by killing off the spinal cord's motor-nerve cells, which control various muscles. In some cases, when muscles in the chest become too weak to function properly, polio victims need mechanical assistance simply to breathe. Though many of the polio victims who survive are left partly paralyzed, they often make dramatic progress. Muscles that had fallen slack begin to work again when healthy nerve cells sprout new connecting fibers and take over the work of cells ravaged by polio...