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...area of study that his foundation funds involves so-called Schwann cells, which play a role in helping nonspinal nerves to regenerate. In animal studies, Schwann cells grafted to the damaged part of the spine encourage nerve cells to grow into the graft but not, so far, to connect downstream. "They fail to bridge the cord," says Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis...
...draft permit for the Mirant Kendall Station, located in Cambridge downstream from the Longfellow Bridge, would allow the plant to continue using the Charles to clean its turbines...
...Downstream in Bangladesh, a Wiscon-sin-size delta of 250 rivers, half of the capital, Dhaka, is under water. Thirty million people are in distress nationwide; nearly 500 people and 55,000 cows have died from drowning, disease or bites from snakes crowding the dry land. In her hut in eastern Dhaka, 20-year-old garment factory worker Rahela Khatoon chained her two-year-old son to a bamboo pole to save him from a black tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat...
Five weeks after he vanished, police find Professor Wiley’s body floating in the Mississippi River, 320 miles downstream from the Memphis bridge on which his abandoned car was found. His death is later ruled accidental and not a suicide, as was originally suggested by authorities...
Yesterday the University oarsmen rowed eight miles. They went downstream to the railroad bridge and then up the four miles over the regular racing course. The flags were not in place so that no effort was made to keep to the Race Day course. No time was taken for the trial. Coach Haines kept them rowing an alternately high and low stroke, changing every half mile...