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...Spyhunter, Activision's Tony Hawk 4 and as many as 15 other games will be on sale online. The system also runs standard Palm apps and games. Battery life, which is critical, is anywhere from 5 hours to 15 hours, depending on the game. Our advice: keep the power cord handy...
That's not the case overseas. The governments of Britain, Singapore, China, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Israel all provide stem-cell funding. Actor Christopher Reeve traveled to Israel last week to endorse that country's support of research that might someday regenerate cells in his damaged spinal cord...
...next to Lekior's in intensive care, Steve Averbach, a victim of an earlier bus bombing, on May 18, watches Seinfeld on a portable television through eyes barely open. Seven people died in that blast, which left Averbach with a spinal-cord injury and lung damage. One of the nurses who cared for him was Naela Haeik, who was born in an Arab village in Israel's Galilee region. She recalls that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac...
...imagine the most amazing drug, that’s what it felt like,” he says. “Everything was just so beautifully clear. It was almost like a roller coaster but so much more fun.” Halfway down, the instructor pulls their parachute cord, and they coast down the rest of the way at a relaxed 25-miles-per-hour descent, after topping out around 120. “Landing was painless,” he says after touching down. “I just sat down...
...head recalling that conversation in November, 2000. "I had talked to him just a week before. Everything had been fine." Not long after, the diagnosis was conclusive: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. Signorini was helpless against the progressive paralysis that eventually froze every part of his body. He died six months ago at 42, leaving a wife and four children. Seemingly out of nowhere, a once tireless athlete is crushed by this cruel and mysterious illness, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease...