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...goods on her husband. Did Clinton ever own up to her face-to-face, admit there was a stained blue dress? Klein raises the question whether Hillary's coldness was faked to make people think she was normal or whether she is normal and actually wanted to break his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honey, I Shrunk My Presidency | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Regarding hair loss, I also prayed for God to leave me my eyebrows and eyelashes; I thought losing them would make me look really sick. As for not having breasts, put it this way: if you compare my body with my 10-year-old son's, between the neck and waist we look identical, except he is the one with nipples. Just to be here today, however, and to be able to write this make me happier than having breasts ever did. PATTY BAILEY Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 2002 | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The RaHooligan: Larry Blew His Chance at Greatness | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Body Electric | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Body Electric | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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