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...sign of things to come. Two days later, the platoon took up a position in a three-story house, overlooking the platoon's new domain. In the side street below, twin bombs erupted. A detonator cord led to the adjoining home, and someone thought he saw movement. The platoon lit up the house with volleys of automatic fire, tripping a battery of hidden devices. The house blew forward, and a young sergeant on a balcony took shrapnel in his groin. At every stop in its advance, the Wolf Pack, as 3rd Platoon is dubbed, found countless bombs, plus doors booby...
...Superhero, Super Man Actor Christopher Reeve [MILE-STONES, Oct. 25] was paralyzed from the neck down as a result of a horse-riding accident in 1995. Afterward he devoted his life to publicizing the need for scientific research to successfully treat and heal spinal-cord injuries. TIME reported on his brave determination in an Aug. 26, 1996, cover story...
...THIS CAN'T BE MY LIFE. THERE'S BEEN A MISTAKE ... When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon,' he says, 'everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal-cord injuries too, if there's the will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space...
Mark invokes the feeling of riding a roller coaster, or jumping out of a plane with only a bungee cord as protection. Some people like it, and some people don?...
Another approach the Reeve Foundation has helped fund involves treating the spinal cord with a drug called rolipram, which stops injured tissue from breaking down. Paralyzed rats treated with Schwann cells and rolipram have shown a 70% improvement in mobility. Elsewhere, researchers are working on ways to neutralize growth inhibitors, proteins in the body that--for reasons known only to nature--block the healing of spinal tissue. By synthesizing other proteins that inhibit the inhibitors, spinal cells may be freed to grow...