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Locomotor training was a long time in coming. In the 1970s, investigators at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm first discovered that paralyzed kittens could be trained to step by placing their back feet on a surface and manually walking them. In 1997, physiologist Reggie Edgerton, who had conducted the kitten studies and had since moved to UCLA, got Reeve onto a treadmill and put him through some therapeutic paces. Two years later, Reeve's foundation launched its NeuroRecovery Network, sponsoring locomotor work at seven hospitals and therapy centers across the country, including the Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, Ky., where...
...outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release some pent-up anger than by throwing down a tomahawk jam on the hoop in my backyard (even if I had to lower the hoop a few feet).Now that I’m at Harvard, where students face enormous pressure in an unpredictable environment, it’s comforting to know that in the frigid months of winter there will always be football on the weekend and in the impossibly fast-paced spring semester I can always count...
...training program. “Harvard prepared me extremely well for the military,” Akins says, who is now a junior-level Naval lieutenant. “What I do now depends on being able to deal with a variety of circumstances and to think on my feet, something that Harvard taught me particularly well...
...Hupp went on to serve as a state representative for 10 years, but she now lays some of the blame for the Virginia killings at the feet of politicians. "I am saddened and sickened, my heart hurts for those people - I've been there," Hupp said. "But at the same time I am angry - even with the sadness - because this was largely preventable on the scale that it happened. The politicians haven't figured it out. They have created gun-free zones, and all of the dreadful things that have happened were in these gun-free zones...
...February 11, 2001: Palm Harbor, Florida A 14 year-old builds a bomb having a kill radius of 15 feet. The parents of another student who had received an e-mail detailing the bomber's plans alert the sheriff's deputies...