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...second area of approach--getting damaged nerves to work again--the researchers' focus is on restoring connections that are intact after an injury but for some reason no longer work. This is where the problem of remyelination comes in. Studies of multiple sclerosis patients have proved useful; MS is an autoimmune disorder in which immune cells strip the spinal-cord nerves of their myelin. Decades ago, MS researchers began testing a derivative of coal tar, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), to help MS patients gain as much use of their existing nerves as possible. The benefit of 4-AP in paralysis...
...first Reeve was told that he was a "C1 incomplete," which means that the spinal cord was still intact and that there was room for improvement, perhaps to the level of a C4, which would allow movement in his arms. Then he was told that he was a "C2 complete," which indicated no potential for improvement. A "complete" means that the spinal cord has been transsected, severed or so badly damaged that it can never be repaired. Fortunately, the first diagnosis was correct...
...victims, and searchers are no longer confident that they will find any more. The recovery of large pieces of the aircraft continues. Crews pulled a 75-foot section of the right wing from the ocean Wednesday, and investigators also plan to bring ashore the left wing and two intact engines which have been spotted on the ocean floor. The prevailing theory is that a bomb was placed in the forward cargo compartment, located below the first-class section. The Washington Post reported Thursday that investigators are also looking into the possibility that a fuel motor in the nearly empty center...
...Michelle Smith, another relative unknown from Ireland, a nation not heretofore known for its aquatics, won three races. The U.S. men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team of Gary Hall Jr., Jon Olsen, Josh Davis and Brad Schumacher not only kept America's unbeaten streak in the event intact, but also provided the delicious symmetry of winning the 100th gold medal for U.S. men swimmers in the 100th year of the Olympics. "Cool," said Davis when first informed of the milestone. Cool was also the reception given to Smith and the Chinese swimmers, who were persistently accused of drug...
...almost perfect crime, figuring out who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then able to charge that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen...