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...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...
...some classmates in his playwriting class. They had grown alarmed at what they heard when it was his turn to present his plays for peer review. The works were violent, obsessive and often focused on sexual abuse. One especially profane play titled Mr. Brownstone told of a student being repeatedly sodomized by a teacher. Another was about a 13-year-old who accuses his stepfather of abusing him. The protagonist's mother at one point brandishes a chainsaw. The play ends with the stepfather crushing the boy to death...
Each April 25, on ANZAC Day, Australians honor the valor of their soldiers in wars past and present. In recent years, thousands of troops-more than at any time since Vietnam-have served in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their actions have won praise at home and abroad. But one soldier's fate suggests that once they leave the military, some veterans face a hard and lonely time...
...hugging some crazy lady on ‘The Price Is Right.’” Several paragraphs later, I poked fun at Donato’s tight, early-’90s pants, then I ended the piece with a flash-forward to the present, when Donato’s “hair and white-washed jeans are mere memories once more...
...bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...