Word: freed
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...much more capacity for response to brain injury than previously thought." The same conclusion has been reached by researchers who have regenerated nerve fibers in other parts of animals' brains as well as in their spinal cords. At Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for instance, Neuroscientist William Freed has treated rats with fetal cell implants to relieve symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease in humans. The implanted cells are capable of producing dopamine, a vital brain chemical lacking in the afflicted rats and in Parkinson's patients. Such techniques used with humans, some researchers believe, may lead...
Repeatedly, the male voice crackled over the telephone lines. On each occasion the message was as unequivocal as it was unusual. Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who was kidnaped last month in Rome, would be freed if Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who is serving a life sentence for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released. The girl's captors threatened to kill her unless their demands were met by midnight last Wednesday. But after the deadline passed the kidnapers remained out of touch, and Emanuela out of sight. The abductors' approach...
...their chance came. Clelia Eleanor Quinonez, 53, surrounded by three of her captors, walked out of the building and across the street to a phone booth, where she was to call her husband and assure him that she was unharmed. The agents moved in swiftly, arrested the trio and freed Quinonez, the wife of a former Salvadoran ambassador, who had been kidnaped from her home in Florida a week earlier. "I was flabbergasted," she said, praising the FBI's flawless rescue, which was executed before any ransom was paid. "It was just like watching TV, like Eliot Ness...
...black BMW on the street in front of her music school in downtown Rome. Last Wednesday, following an appeal from the Pope for her safe return, the abductors finally unveiled their startling demand. In a call to Orlandi's family, the kidnapers announced that the girl would be freed only if Agca were released. The Vatican, they added, should intercede with the Italian government to obtain his freedom...
Several of the joca which evince Sainte Foy's attention to detail related to the liberation of prisoners. In one account a miraculous ass appeared out of nowhere on which the freed man rode off with his chains still dangling about him. The ass disappeared just as mysteriously. In another instance, she released a nobleman, Raymond, and as he was feeling through the door that she had opened for him, a woman holding out a pair of shoes suddenly appeared before him. She inquired if he was the same Raymond whom Sainte Foy had just delivered. She then handed...