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...early 1980s, Shonibare returned to England to attend the Wimbledon College of Art, but he had been there only a few weeks when he collapsed one day in class. The cause turned out to be transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord, which for a time left him largely paralyzed. Now he can walk again, though with difficulty...
...hospital where, thanks to my experiences, the food looked good. When we got home the following day, Sara gave us a truly beautiful placentapill presentation: a pretty glass jar, a card, a CD of lullabies and a satin pouch. In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart. When I asked Sara what the hell I was supposed to do with that, she said people often use it to keep a baby's first tooth and lock of hair. That's when I realized that placenta-eating is really just the beginning of how gross...
...ergonomics specialists know, using a computer can be a real pain - in the neck, wrists, back, eyes, shoulders, etc. But it also leads to injuries that experts may not have considered, such as trips and falls over the printer cord, lacerations from the sharp corners of a CPU or bruised toes from dropping laptops on feet...
...Ghazni province that killed three Afghan police officers, streams of tape were found ahead of the blast crater. The reflective quality of the tape, soldiers said, had allowed militant spotters to be forewarned of the arrival of enemy forces and to time the explosion from afar. Once the detonation cord was traced back to a village compound, the bombers were long gone...
...spontaneous injuries are as obvious as a rupture of the Achilles tendon. That ropelike cord in the back of our ankles carries enormous loads. It resists, literally, a thousand pounds of tension when a person, even of normal weight, runs or jumps. When the tendon pops, it's not subtle; many patients report actually hearing a bang. It hurts a lot. And most characteristically, they suddenly lose all "down power" in the ankle, making it impossible to get up on tiptoe...