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...With reporting by Barry Hillenbrand/London, Jane Knight/Caracas and Stacy Perman/New York
There was the worry, though, that too much tough talk might narrow the gender gap. Clinton could actually widen it by hiring America's favorite female writer, the blockbusting Jane Austen! Eagerly the speechwriters studied her entry...
...U.Va., Reeve came under the care of a noted neurosurgeon and teacher of neurosurgeons, John Jane, who would operate on Reeve himself. Before that, however, Reeve needed to be stabilized to prevent any more compression in the spine. He was placed on a bed with a kind of halo attached to his head and a heavy weight that kept him immobile. He was given morphine. Sometimes he would attempt to flail and would jerk his head from side to side, and more sedation would be necessary...
...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...
...What Jane did was put Reeve's head back on his body. After the operation Reeve told him, "I want to thank you for giving me my life." Jane was in tears when he left the room...