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Fortunately for the Crimson, Byrnes insists that he’s never felt better, with the year off having allowed him to recuperate and heal. In the nationally televised 2005 Spring Crimson-White Game scrimmage, he showed what he was capable of when free from injury, hauling in four catches for a team-high 94 yards and tallying a touchdown...
...drove to the local family-planning clinic, where, Hu says, nurses threw her onto an operating table. "Other people were fine after their operations, but it hurt me so much, I could barely stand up," says Hu, 33. Two weeks later, doctors operated again and promised things would heal better. But even today, Hu doubles over in pain after just a few steps. "They told me they were doing this for my own good," says Hu. "But they have ruined my life...
Female detectives are usually tough (Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski) or cute (Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe). Maisie, whose card reads PSYCHOLOGIST AND INVESTIGATOR, is neither: she's a cerebral, vulnerable inquisitor who takes up sleuthing in the late 1930s to heal the trauma she experienced as a nurse in the Great War. Set in an era when women were grappling with modernity, Pardonable Lies, the third of this young series, sends Maisie on a quest for truth, during which secrets and lies lead instead to self-discovery. --By Johanna McGeary
...London attacks "utterly criminal, totally reprehensible, and absolutely un-Islamic." Sir Iqbal Sacranie, who heads the Muslim Council of Britain, an umbrella group with some 350 affiliated institutions, traveled to Leeds to talk to worshippers in one of the city's biggest mosques. Yet the visit, designed to heal wounds, was not a complete success. The Guardian reported that young men criticized Sacranie - who was recently knighted for "services to the Muslim community, to charity and to community relations" - for failing to seek them out during his visit. To be sure, the older generation has to find ways to reach...
...referring to the infamous Tuskegee experiment, conducted by the U.S. government from the 1930s to the early '70s, during which doctors denied nearly 400 black men in Alabama treatment for syphilis in order to observe the disease's long-term effects. The scars left by Tuskegee are slow to heal in the African-American community, and many blacks remain deeply suspicious of anything that approaches the emotionally charged intersection of race and medicine...