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...year-old man had managed to pull it off. The man, whose identity was withheld, had suffered severe brain damage in a 1999 mugging and spent the past eight years in the dark cognitive well that neuroscientists call a minimally conscious state. Improbably, however, he can now greet both his parents. He can identify objects, hold very brief conversations and watch movies, and he recently recited the first 16 words of the Pledge of Allegiance. "I told him to say the pledge, and he did," says neuropsychologist Joseph Giacino of the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute and the New Jersey Neuroscience...
...time Thompson had finished with that group, Grassley had found other fans for Thompson to greet. "Run, Fred, run!" one group yelled. "You better get over there and shake hands with those folks if they're gonna yell at you like that," Grassley said in his typical Iowan twang. "These folks follow you on Law and Order," he said, referring to the NBC show Thompson appeared in from 2002 until recently where he played the New York District Attorney. "Nothing but reruns from now on in, I'm afraid," Thompson said, a little wistfully...
...greet that flighty mistress named ‘adventure,’ let’s embrace her together!” Slack might have been reaching on a few of these, but his earnest exhortations to love and friendship drew thunderous cheers from the crowd...
...More than one journalist has compared the series to Charles Dickens’ “The Old Curiosity Shop,” published in serial form from 1840 to 1841. The last chapter arrived from Britain in November 1841, and New Yorkers crowded the docks to greet the ship, calling, “Is Little Nell dead...
Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out" blared over speakers as University President Drew G. Faust emerged from Mass. Hall on Monday evening in her first public appearance since taking office. Faust paused in the doorway, briefly dancing along to the music, before continuing on to greet a small audience of Harvard affiliates who had gathered in Harvard Yard to chat with the president over ice cream...