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Clad in a Red Sox cap, black Nikes, and a bright mustard-colored shirt, Moura, 24, arrives at Harvard after finishing his shifts at two other jobs—assembling light fixtures at a local distributor and buffing floors in a hair parlor...
...work at a hair parlor buffing and waxing the floors. Then we go home, eat really quickly, and come straight here [to Harvard],” Moura says...
...operation involves advanced microsurgical techniques, the joining of arterial walls with thread finer than a human hair, and exquisitely delicate maneuvers by the surgeons. Nonetheless, hundreds of doctors have mastered its intricacies, and the operation has been performed on thousands of patients around the world. There is just one problem: for most patients, it does not seem to help...
...century helmet in the form of a courtier's hat, rising like an inverted keel some two feet above the head and decorated in a tortoiseshell pattern of black and honey-colored lacquer. Others seem not to be there--a helmet, for instance, covered with a wig of animal hair to mimic a young man's coiffure, thus fooling an enemy into thinking the samurai is helmetless...
Efrain Gmez Primo, 34, had every reason to be grateful for miracles. Helplessly wedged between wooden slats in mud and water that reached up to his neck, Gmez had been lost and rediscovered three times in the wake of the avalanche. His hair and mustache matted with muck, Gmez talked as four farm workers from a neighboring town cut away the restraining slats and removed a bamboo pole that the survivor was clutching with all his strength. Next to him was the body of his landlady, who had died, Gmez said, "about an hour...