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Never Before. The spinal cord is a cylinder of whitish-grey mush surrounded by a tough casing, running through the hollow centers of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs. Inside the cord are nerve cells and main nerve tracts like a telephone installer's spaghetti wire. Although smaller nerves in the extremities may regenerate after injury and partial restoration of function is possible if the cord is not completely severed, there is virtually no precedent of rejoining and restoring function to a completely severed spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent...
...than the telephone company got through a whole year of advertising." Since the passage of job discrimination laws, many firms have wanted to hire members of minority groups. But the South End residents are sometimes too scared or too apathetic to travel all the way to a firm's main offices, Gopen explained...
...years immediately following World War II, members of the federal bureaucracy, especially in the Departments of State and Defense, were convinced that the main reason we had won the war was that we had a great jump on the rest of the world in the field of "general knowledge." We just knew more, knew how to handle new situations better...
Moisturizing Cream. The campaign journal is equally well done, if far more ebullient. Yaël was assigned as a combat correspondent to the armored division of celebrated General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon. She records how Sharon, outmanned and outtanked,swept out of the Negev, cracked the Egyptian main line of resistance at Um-Katef, and opened the route to the Suez Canal for Israeli armor. She has a sharp sense of color. At the village of Nahel: "The sandstorm receded, and silence took over. The horn of a burning vehicle was operating-a wan sound of alarm...
These are the years of experimentation for Latin American revolutionaries. The two main guerrilla theories now being tested are both essentially of Cuban origin: the first is the theory of roving bands rather than guerrilla base areas, as propounded by Regis Debray in his book Revolution in the Revolution? The second is the theory of the continental revolution as implied in the message of Che Guevara to the Organization of the Solidarity of the people of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL...