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...with Caffey allegedly using scissors and a knife to perform a C-section on Evans. Then Williams, who has some training as a nurse's aide, extracted the 38-week-old, 6-lb. 8-oz. baby. After reviving Elijah with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Williams inexpertly cut the umbilical cord, then cleaned and dressed...
Eight and a half million veterans are 65 or older. Twenty-five thousand of them suffer from paralyzing spinal-cord injuries or diseases, and in many cases, their spouses are growing too frail to care for them at home. Six hundred thousand veterans, by VA estimate, will be suffering from Alzheimer's and other severely dementing conditions by the year 2000. Yet the VA and state veterans homes today can provide fewer than 40,000 nursing-home beds. "The demand for long-term care is going to skyrocket over the next five to 15 years," observes VA Under Secretary...
...that hit him the first few times his ventilator stopped functioning, the love of his family that keeps him going. He and his wife chose Walters after being pursued by virtually every interviewer in the business. "Our main goal was to get a message out about what a spinal-cord injury is," Reeve says. "We wanted to make sure that our story was not trivialized or sensationalized. I felt after watching Barbara Walters for so many years that she would be the best qualified to help us with that...
RECOVERING. LOU HOLTZ, 58, Notre Dame football coach; from 4 1/2 hours of surgery to relieve debilitating spinal-cord pressure; at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Though he is improving, Holtz will be on the bench for at least two more weeks...
...master architects in a surprisingly broad range of animals, from rodents to roundworms. These gossamer strands of DNA -- known as homoeotic homeobox genes, or Hox genes for short -- lay out the embryo from head to tail, controlling everything from the development of limbs and the wiring of the spinal cord to the patterning of the gut and urogenital tracts. "What's amazing," says University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Neil Shubin, "is that evolution of complex structures appears to be controlled by this same small set of genes...