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Reeve's fight to reclaim his life was joined almost the moment he fell headfirst off his horse. In order to keep his paralyzed muscles from withering, his therapists put him on an exercise bicycle known as a functional electrical stimulus (FES) system, which uses electrodes to jolt leg muscles into a pedaling motion. A session on the bike builds muscle mass and provides a good cardiovascular workout. "My heart rate goes up 40 beats per minute," Reeve says, "and in seven years, I've lost an average of only an inch and a half off my thighs, calves...
After the birth of our kids, my wife and I proceeded to obsess about the things most parents obsess about--schools, our wills, life insurance. Then I realized with a jolt: my kids will reach my present age of 65 in 2052. That's a real date, not an unimaginable one! My kids' lives will depend on the state of the world in 2052, not just on our decisions about life insurance and schools...
...begins a tale in Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection of six stories set in Japan immediately following the 1995 earthquake that ravaged the city of Kobe and gave a psychic jolt to the entire nation. In Murakami's novels, including A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, a normal guy often experiences a life-changing event, usually with the help of some fantastical device. Ultimately, his struggle is psychological, and so it is in these short stories. Katagiri, for instance, needs giant insects to help him realize he must battle his personal frustrations before...
...music Sam Phillips godfathered had the same effect on American kids as the jolt from a 220-volt fuse. It let them know they were alive...
...RELIEVE THE PAIN OF OSTEOARTHRITIS, THE WEAR-AND-TEAR FORM OF ARTHRITIS? By helping the joints align and function better--and also because strong muscles absorb shock during movement. Think of a car with worn-out shock absorbers. When you go over a pothole, the car gets a big jolt. The same happens with weak muscles. You can't absorb the shock, and it's painful. There may be some other biochemical factors as well...