Word: intactness
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...presently paralyzed, it will at best be partial. The idea so dramatized in the Super Bowl commercial--that someone with a completely severed cord will actually walk--is very farfetched. Walking is a hugely complex motor and feedback activity. Look at how long it takes babies, who have totally intact nervous systems, to learn it. Look at how, despite decades of research to develop robots that walk, they remain primitive, often comical. Perhaps the long-injured will enjoy some partial return, some movement in the hands or chest or even legs. That would be a considerable boon...
...Beanpot Final, the Crimson also trailed 1-0 after two periods on an early goal by the eventual Hobey Baker winner Chris Drury. Prestifilippo, in his first game back from mononucleosis, kept the score intact long enough for then-freshman winger Harry Schwefel to tie the score late in the third off the nicest pass Brice Conklin '99 made in his entire Crimson career...
...Chechen capital may have been primarily symbolic - if particularly bloody - but the for the city's residents it has been devastating. Many have sheltered for months in freezing cellars with little to eat or drink, enduring daily pounding by Russian artillery and aircraft. Now hardly a building is left intact, and Russian officials have indicated that Moscow is unlikely to cough up the $1 billion that would be required to start rebuilding the city. (For one thing, if the history of the last war is anything to go by, Moscow's tenure there may be far from eternal.) Instead, Moscow...
...cabal remained intact the following year and rallied behind Stewart and her running-mate Samuel C. Cohen '00, both of whom went on to win the election...
Likely, the Crimson will need to put forth a full 40-minute effort each time to have any chance of coming out of New York with its perfect Ivy record intact...