Word: grows
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...central system were simply incapable of regrowth once they were damaged. A researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Alberto Aguayo, turned this assumption around by demonstrating that a nerve taken from an animal's leg and grafted onto the central nervous system allowed the nerve cells to grow along the transplanted nerve. Evidently there was nothing wrong with spinal-cord nerves, but something in the central nervous system was impeding their growth...
When he went to Washington to lobby for research funds, he suddenly lost his voice due to a trach replacement that had been made a few days earlier. A trach needs to be changed every three weeks so that tissue does not grow over it. The body tries to expel the trach because it is a foreign element; this is when secretions form. When the tissue grows, it can cut off the air supply by closing the hole in which the trach rests. Every three weeks, the whole apparatus has to be torn...
Slowly, determinedly, Reeves began to take control of his condition. His confidence began to grow. Dana remained tireless in her attention to him. Will cheered him up as he clamored over his father's chair. Matthew and Alexandra, his two children from a long relationship in England with Gae Exton, flew over to be with him, as did Exton. He grew close to his nurses, especially a man nicknamed Juice--"my beloved Juice"--who was devoted to him. Juice had a joyous nature and was exceptionally strong. "When he would grip me," says Reeve, "and I'd lean forward...
...last summer, "my parents taught me to put my trust in God, not government, and never confuse the two." Self-reliance was bred in the bone. His family, his neighbors, his whole thirsty town of Russell, Kansas, lived one day at a time through the 1930s, when little would grow, when the dust filmed the windows and smothered the crops, when some farmers slaughtered their cattle and then killed themselves rather than face the shame of bankruptcy. They knew about making do with what they had and not complaining about it. "There are doers, and there are stewers," his father...
...took 15 years, however, for Mahler to grow into an obsession. In the meantime, Kaplan had founded the investment magazine that made his fortune, and thus had the financial underpinning for what seemed an impossible leap: from Mahler fan to Mahler interpreter. "At age 40, I woke up one morning and knew in my mind that I was going to conduct this piece," says Kaplan...