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...People who sustain spinal-cord injuries are often rushed into surgery; the idea is to relieve swelling and thus reduce the chance of permanent paralysis. But this may amount to taking an unnecessary risk. A study has found that one year after the trauma, people who went under the knife immediately were no better off, on average, than those who didn...
Sometime after midnight, a neighbor out walking his dog found the bodies. Nicole, wearing only a nightgown, lay in a pool of blood, her head severed to the spinal cord. A barefoot Goldman lay nearby, his body laced with signs of a ferocious struggle and 22 knife wounds. It was the neighborhood dogs that sounded the alarm, their paws spreading a bloody mosaic on the sidewalk around the house. One of the first cops on the scene, a longtime veteran, said, "It was the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen...
...most postpolio experts favor a competing theory that says wear and tear on the nerves is to blame. Polio initially attacks the nerves by invading the body through the mouth or nose, traveling through the bloodstream to the spinal cord and lodging in the nerve cells that control muscle activity. As the disease progresses, nerve cells in the spinal cord are damaged or killed, paralyzing muscles that lead to the arms, legs, stomach and chest...
...loyalty. It is the fallibility of the diva, the tension between her polished star exterior and the human being beneath, that ensures her appeal. Divas are subject as well to a society that views them as bizarre aberrations of nature, supernatural vocal powers; as Koestenbaum points out, the "velvet cord" that separated the diva from her richer and socially more elite audience in the 17th and 18th centuries still exists, albeit invisibly, and the diva's fame is hard-won and hard-kept once she is past her vocal prime...
...facing such a moment of truth right now, as she awaits the results of a test that will tell her whether she carries the gene for ataxia. The degenerative disease killed her mother at 52 and has already started to destroy the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord of three of Vicki's brothers. "I'm 35, and that's young enough to make a career change," says Balogh, a manager at Ameritech. "I've always wanted to be a teacher, but if I have ataxia, well...