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...send a good message to the old-timers who made Sanyo what it is," says Hideyo Waki, a business professor at Tokyo Denki University. It was even harder to persuade investors like Goldman Sachs and Daiwa Securities, which had sunk billions of dollars into a Sanyo turnaround, to be patient. Saddled with $3.4 billion in long-term debt, Sanyo only had the resources to restructure, not revolutionize...
Locomotor retraining is not a fix but a way to make the most of what a patient has left. It's less helpful when the spine is completely severed--by, say, a gunshot. This prevents the brain from getting any signals downstream. But most injuries are not so complete. As long as some links are present, so is potential. "The spinal-cord networks become optimized for the new situation," Harkema says, "and the brain changes as well." As that happens, entire lives--many that have just begun--change...
...that is often impoverished and ravaged by violence. “Hezbollah offers an array of social services to its constituents that include construction companies, schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and micro-finance initiatives,” he writes. “Hezbollah hospital and clinic staff also treat walk-in patients, regardless of political views or their sect, for only a small fee.” Yet Norton also deals with the violent aspects of Hezbollah, including its conflict with Israel in the summer of 2006, which garnered a vast amount of attention from the international community. Norton wisely avoids condoning...
...keep undermining and embarrassing those in the Bush Administration who want to find a negotiated solution," says Einhorn, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In for a penny, in for a pound. The Administration has no choice at this stage but to be patient a few days longer and see if the North Koreans will comply...
...Presumably this flaunting of his body beautiful was for the women in the audience. Off-screen Infante was a dedicated ladies' man, with countless mistresses and one very patient spouse. Let Chavéz do the enumerating: "There was his first girlfriend, Lupita Marqués, who bore him a little girl. And then there was his long-suffering wife, María Luisa. Then came Lupe Torrentera, the young dancer he met when she was 14 and who bore him a daughter, Graciela Margarita, at age fifteen. Lupe was the mother of two of his other children...