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...survive if your parachute fails to open (if a fellow skydiver is nearby--and that's one big if--grab him); and for those who share Pedro Almodovar's concerns, how to deliver a baby in a moving vehicle (support the baby's head and tie the umbilical cord with a shoelace...
...Umbilical Cord...
After decades of conflict and the deaths of thousands of innocent people, the British government should wake up and realize that there is only one solution to the Northern Ireland problem [WORLD, Feb. 21]: Britain must cut the umbilical cord to that troublesome province. After all the suffering the people have gone through, the result of a nationwide referendum would overwhelmingly indicate that Britain should relinquish its relationship with Ulster for good. Northern Ireland's warring communities, when faced with the prospect of managing their own affairs, would have to lay down their arms and iron out their differences...
...E.I.F. has funneled more than $140 million to various charitable causes, and lately it has been targeting health initiatives, like a $20 million fund-raising campaign to support breast-cancer research. Leveraging the power of celebrity to fight disease is a well-tested strategy. Think Christopher Reeve and spinal-cord injury or Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's disease...
Third, even in the unlikely event there is a cure for those presently paralyzed, it will at best be partial. The idea so dramatized in the Super Bowl commercial--that someone with a completely severed cord will actually walk--is very farfetched. Walking is a hugely complex motor and feedback activity. Look at how long it takes babies, who have totally intact nervous systems, to learn it. Look at how, despite decades of research to develop robots that walk, they remain primitive, often comical. Perhaps the long-injured will enjoy some partial return, some movement in the hands or chest...