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Merely being able to look back over her shoulder brings great satisfaction to Debra Tietz, 19, a beautician in Cottage Grove, Minn. For nearly seven years, she could not bend her neck or back: her torso was held rigid from the chin to the pelvis by a cumbersome steel and leather brace. Debra was the victim of scoliosis, or abnormal curvature of the spine. The brace, which she was finally able to discard last year, not only straightened her back but may well have saved her life...
...Debra Sheetz '75 who works under Prenner and Louis Law, director of technical services at the Science Center, said yesterday that she has given out 1500 new computer accounts since September. She said that only 2000 accounts were given out last year...
...with them (one woman inmate was asked to stay). By Sunday morning both men were exhausted, and their attention began to waver, giving the remaining seven hostages a chance to escape. In a carefully devised scheme that had been prearranged by telephone with authorities outside, the lone woman hostage, Debra Collins, told the two men that she needed a sanitary napkin. Officials sent it in to her with a key to the cell block elevator wrapped inside. While Gorham slept and Wilkerson talked on the telephone, the seven captives opened the elevator with the smuggled key, quickly got inside...
...Spring. Md.; Beth Goldman of Eliot House and Blue Field Hills, Mich.; Dawn Ho of Dunster House and Cleveland Heights. Ohio: Sandra J. Kopit of Currier House and Silver Spring. Md.; Patricia E. Lynch of Lowell House and West Babylon. N.Y.; Anne MacKinnon of Adams House and Louisville. Ky.; Debra L. Raskin of Eliot House and Miami. Fla.; Ernestine N. Rathborne of Lowell House and Mill Neck. N.Y.; Marybeth Shinn of North House and New York, N.Y.; Karen L. Taylor of North House and Alexandria. Va.; and. Sally E. Yard of Adams House and Trenton...
...Debra Jackson, 13, had previously undergone three complete exchange transfusions, yet remained comatose. Six hours after being connected to a baboon liver, she made spontaneous movements and showed normal reflexes. After 13½ hours, she spoke; in two weeks she was walking. Although it took three months of intensive hospital treatment to make her fully healthy again, she is now back at school. The second patient, Mrs. Yvonne Royster, 24, had a similar experience; seven months after treatment, say the doctors, "she was in excellent health looking after her children and working as a part-time waitress...