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...orthopedic devices, Simmons developed a pedicle screw system for osteoporotic bone, what McKay Professor of Engineering Robert D. Howe calls “an amazingly original idea.” This device would be used in patients who undergo spinal fusion, the most common surgical remedy for back pain, according to Simmons’ abstract. Because older patients often suffer from low bone density, the expanding screw would go into the vertebral body, creating a system with a greater holding capacity, she wrote in her abstract. Everett, who also placed second, collaborated with knee-injury specialists to improve testing...
...times, it is less subtle: when lighting designer Christopher Akerlind puts the main characters in squares of light across the stage from each other, the separation is as complete and cruel as a wall could be. “Orpheus X” is a play of loneliness and pain whose only cure, the final scene seems to suggest, is silence and forgetfulness. Until that point of silence, the play is as frantic and unrelenting as its characters. While it doesn’t always reach the emotional resonance it seeks, it is always compelling. —Reviewer Elisabeth...
...Reports of a passed out individual in front of Au Bon Pain on 1360 Mass. Ave. led Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers to investigate last Thursday, April 6. Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers also responded to the scene, but the fainter subsequently awoke and left the area...
...sense, though, Diana, Princess of Wales, was not gone. The day before she was blessed and buried, her former mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, made a rare, hastily arranged televised statement putting, after days of puzzling silence, the royal seal on the pain that so many ordinary people had already registered so sharply: "No one who knew Diana will ever forget her," the Queen said, looking directly into the camera lens. "Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember...
...famous beyond measure, bore two healthy sons and acquired a regal platform for her generous heart. For all the opprobrium heaped last week by Diana's admirers on the chilly Windsors, she would have been invisible without them. The lonely youngest daughter of divorced parents, she translated her own pain not into bitterness and withdrawal but into a genuine desire to comfort the suffering of others--people afflicted with AIDS and leprosy and breast cancer, the mutilated victims of land mines. She could have done far worse with her fortune and acquired fame...