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...Jane was working within 1/16 of an inch of the brain stem. He placed a wire under both lamina--the bony covering of the spinal cord. He took bone from Reeve's hip and squeezed it down to get a solid fit between the C1 and C2. Then he put in a titanium pin the shape of a tiny croquet wicket and fused the sublaminal wire with the first and second vertebrae. Finally, he drilled holes in Reeve's skull and passed the wires through to get a solid fusion...
...Virginia: Nyla, the Virginia Zoo's only hippopotamus, died of a bowel blockage on Sunday after she ate a racquetball tossed into her pen by a visitor. Zookeepers were mystified by Nyla's death until an autopsy of the 4,300-pound hippo showed that she had a 2-inch rubber ball blocking her intestinal passageway. Though authorities knew the hippo was suffering some kind of obstruction, they did not perform surgery, fearing she would die during the procedure. Nyla, 31, had lived at the zoo for more than 20 years after spending her youth as part...
...Karolinska team members, led by Henrich Cheng, took special pains to avoid the pitfalls that had tripped up investigators in the past. They widened the gap (by removing a quarter inch of spine) to ensure that no nerve tissue remained to produce false-positive results. Then they built their cellular bridges according to a precise blueprint that carefully distinguished between the two kinds of nerve tissue in the spinal cord--white and gray matter. White matter contains the parts of nerves that are surrounded by a substance called myelin, which acts like insulation around an electric wire. Gray matter contains...
...INCH TO PINCH...
Tragedy struck in 1990. A semitrailer slammed into the tour bus Estefan was traveling in, breaking her back. She narrowly escaped paralysis (doctors inserted two 8-inch-long steel rods into her spine), but recovery was arduous. Still, less than a year after the accident, Estefan was back onstage--singing and dancing. Says Jorge Casas, Estefan's longtime bass player and musical director: "That alone should give you an idea of how incredibly driven and hardworking...