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...another, far more difficult task to heal the rifts that the Jeffries speech caused between campus Blacks and the rest of the minority community, and between campus Blacks and whites...
...rebuilding is well advanced, the country's psychic rehabilitation has barely begun. The seven-month occupation left deep scars that will take years to heal. Iraqi soldiers tortured or brutalized an estimated 15,000 Kuwaitis, including more than 1,000 female victims of rape, who are considered unmarriageable or pariahs by a conservative Islamic society. According to a government-authorized medical study, 350 Kuwaitis died during their imprisonment, usually after gruesome torture. Limbs were broken, eyes gouged out, ears and genitals cut off. In one case, a man was half immersed in a vat of acid. Men were killed...
Fewkes, a skin oncologist, utilizes the technique in skin cancer and leg ulcer surgery. Removal of skin cancers often creates large holes in the epidermis, or outermost layer of skin, which must be filled in, she says. The treatment of leg ulcers, large skin wounds which do not heal, is based on skin replacement...
Once created, an autograft can be kept frozen and used to generate more sheets of skin whenever needed. For these patients, who may have a limited amount of skin from which to proceed with split skin grafting, autografting may be the only way to heal skin wounds...
...women facing the trials and terrors of breast cancer, the worst part of the ordeal -- worse even than the possibility of losing a breast -- is the sense that the nightmare is not over even after the stitches heal. Breast cancer strikes 1 out of 9 women in industrialized countries and recurs in a third of all patients within five years of their initial diagnosis and in more than half within 10 years...