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...their arms or legs can now rely on computerized "sip and puff" machines. With light puffs into a plastic straw, users can switch on the TV and change its channels, telephone a friend and play computer games. Electronic nerve stimulars are helping men with severe spinal-cord injuries to father children; penile implants are enabling men who cannot sustain an erection to make love. Wheelchairs that stand up make it possible for the disabled to greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals with no voice...
...information to be released quickly. Though journal editors insist that the review process can be speeded up for urgent papers, they concede that sometimes an important report has gone unrecognized. For example, Yale University researchers sent a paper to the N.E.J.M. in October 1989 noting that patients with spinal-cord injuries who were treated with high doses of steroids while in the emergency room had much better recoveries than patients who did not receive the drugs. The impact of the discovery is enormous: about 10,000 people a year suffer such spinal-cord injuries. But the paper was not published...
...drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
...none of these reasons captures the true horror of long-distance love. I hate distant relationships because of the way they enslave lovestruck collegiates. No freedom is allowed for those unlucky ones joined by the fiber optic umbilical cord...
Consider the case of Jeannette Shulda, rendered a quadriplegic in 1984. She was helping her long-haul trucker husband when a pallet fell on her, crushing her spinal cord. A company called Transit Casualty (remember that name) paid out more than $300,000 in medical expenses and 24-hour care. Then everything stopped. At the end of 1985 Transit Casualty went broke. For technical reasons, the California state guaranty fund wouldn't cover the claim. Eventually it probably will (just hang in there, Mrs. Shulda), but nearly five years later, the case is still in the courts...