Word: corded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Percentage the National Institutes of Health increased its spending on spinal-cord injuries since Christopher Reeve's accident...
...Ratio of people suffering from spinal-cord injuries to people suffering from multiple sclerosis...
...kids may understand the line "This world is such a gas!" followed by an impolite noise, and the baleful "I can barely hear myself suck!" but not the pouty "I miss my old womb," and maybe not the exchange between a female voice ("Man, they cut my cord!") and a male ("Awww, consider yourself lucky"). Side benefit of taking your kids to the movie: it was probably time to explain the miracle of circumcision to them anyway...
...proud to say I have replaced the umbilical cord with a fiber-optic one. It's nice to be able to talk to one's parents as friends, as confidantes. And every once in a while, I tell a story that makes my mom laugh so hard she begins to cry. I don't know if it's because she's so happy or if it's because she misses me. It's those moments that make me glad I went off to college so I could discover that my parents are people, too--and wish that I were back...
...list goes on to include virtually any disorder that involves the loss of normal cells: stroke, muscular dystrophy, spinal-cord injury, kidney or liver disease, blindness caused by degeneration of the retina. Stem cells could also provide drug companies with a limitless supply of normal human tissues to use in testing the toxicity of new drugs. "This is a fairly unique resource," says Johns Hopkins team leader John Gearhart, in a masterpiece of understatement...