Word: necks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...admirable thing you’ve stuck your neck out for is the ROTC program. For your stance on this issue, you’ve taken a lot of flak from campus leftist-types. They don’t see, the way you and I do, the need for such a program to be supported by the administration. All this acrimony could have been avoided, however, in three easy steps...
...three seconds before I came crashing down. "There's a pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...
...artistic choice, Brian Holgersen, a 30-year-old Danish tetraplegic, is doing out of physical necessity. For Holgersen, technology has already become a part of his body. Eight years ago, on a motorcycle trip to the U.K. to visit his sister, he was in an accident and broke his neck. Except for some minor movement in his shoulders, left arm and left hand, he was paralyzed below the neck. Holgersen underwent an experimental surgical procedure to implant a neural prosthesis - an interface between an electronic device and the human nervous system - to bypass the damaged stretches of his spinal cord...
Paralysis results from neck and spinal cord injuries because the neural traffic that moves between the brain and the muscles is severed or blocked. Like a kink in a garden hose, spinal trauma cuts off the flow of information that travels along afferent nerves, which send signals from the body to the brain, and efferent nerves, which carry instructions from the brain to the body's musculature. In many cases of paralysis, though, the motor and sensory nerves below the level of the lesion remain intact and could function again...
...blistering campaign focused on a united France. Mitterrand trounced Chirac with 54% of the vote in the second round runoff, the biggest presidential majority of the past two decades. But Chirac's scheme went out the window two weeks ago when fresh polls showed him and Jospin running neck and neck. Chirac's dilemma was complicated by the return of Didier Schuller, who gave himself up to magistrates investigating alleged corruption by Chirac's Rally for the Republic (rpr) party...