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Over the next month, he put Reeve through a battery of tests. Magnetic-resonance imaging showed that the signal commanding the finger originated in the correct region of the brain, meaning that at least one clean circuit was intact. With a little coaxing, Reeve brought more circuits online, learning to move other hand joints, wiggle his toes and push back when resistance was applied to his feet. Though he had noticed some sensation returning, he hadn't realized how much. A standard test with a cotton ball and a safety pin revealed that he was sensitive to a pinprick over...
Like a strand of tightly woven twine, the spinal cord is actually made up of thousands of nerve fibers that are strongest and most effective when they work as an intact unit. Even the slightest fraying of the cord can interrupt or weaken signals traveling from the brain to the muscles, in some cases resulting in paralysis. To bridge these gaps in the tapestry of nerve cells, you have to either coax existing neurons to grow across the neural divide or introduce new cells to replace the damaged ones. Often the two strategies feed off each other: the growth...
...plans for what not to attack: Washington wants to leave enough of the key military-communications network intact so that the Iraqi military wouldn't lose contact with the capital and follow its standing orders under such circumstances to launch biological and chemical weapons. The U.S. also would spare, as far as possible, the 300,000-strong regular Iraqi army in the hope that it would end up siding with American forces and forming the foundation for a post-Saddam military. Once U.S. forces captured major cities in northern and southern Iraq, ground troops would advance to Baghdad...
...tomb of the boy king Tutankhamen created a sensation from the moment it was uncovered in 1922. One of the few royal burial chambers that survived the centuries relatively intact, it was by far the richest--filled with gold, ivory and carved wooden treasures, including what may be the world's most famous funerary mask. But there was also something troubling about the way King Tut was buried--hints and omissions that suggested foul play...
Though cracked and bent, the sphere is still intact and one of the few physical remnants of the World Trade Center...