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...cable operators' network upgrades are aimed at much richer and more important prizes, chief among them their own survival. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed media giants of all persuasions to compete in one another's markets. With everybody from the Baby Bells to Bill Gates breathing down their neck, cable operators have little choice but to lay fiber over their aging coax networks as the old analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television...
Brine "key chains," worn around the neck with keys and student ID dangling down your back (preferably underneath a sweaty t-shirt) are also "in"; senior Katina Lee, co-captain of the softball team, models the trend nicely...
Brine "key chains," worn around the neck with keys and student ID dangling down your back (preferably underneath a sweaty t-shirt) are also "in"; senior Katina Lee, co-captain of the softball team, models the trend nicely...
After that, Reeve is put through neck exercises--sort of neck pushups, with the head lifting up and down and the nurse holding it to provide resistance. Each exercise entails 50 repetitions. Then he rotates his head from side to side, and again the nurse resists. He does chin tucks and shoulder shrugs, in which he exercises what little movement he has in his shoulders; he raises them as high as he can, then brings them down again, also 50 times. He does a similar exercise of the scapula muscles, below the shoulder blades...
...operations are as perilous as dealing with a C1-C2 injury. Sprouting from the spinal cord are 31 pairs of nerves. Closest to the brain are the eight cervical nerves, which process information received from the neck, shoulders, arms and hands. When Reeve was thrown from his horse, he could move only his head. (Most head-turning muscles are controlled by nerves emerging from the brain, not the spinal cord.) Now, a year later, he is able to shrug his shoulders and breathe on his own for lengthening periods of time, which means that his first, second, third and fourth...