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...goes down, and only then will she be able to begin physical therapy. It will be a year or more before sensation and muscle control will be achieved, and it is by no means certain that either one will be fully restored. And the patient must overcome the always-present risk of tissue rejection, for which she will require immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. "You can see rejection immediately if it begins," says Siemionow. "It will appear as a rash or redness or swelling. So far, none of this has happened with this patient...
Kenen stressed that the large class size will hopefully be only temporary since about half the full slate of Gen Ed classes will be taught next year. How large the course selection will be, however, is unclear at present...
...Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World,” Literature 10: “Writing Across Cultures: Literatures of the World (To 1750),” and Literature 11: “Writing Across Cultures: Literatures of the World (From 1750 to the Present)”—have been revamped to fulfill the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement...
...neutralize the pirates by pursuing them on land. Hence a U.S. draft proposal authorizing military action inside Somalia currently before the U.N. Security Council. But sending troops into Somalia is fraught with danger, as the American soldiers of Blackhawk Down, and now the Ethiopians, know to their cost. Present day U.S. operations against the Islamists - publicly confined to air strikes, but also including some clandestine fighting on the ground - have killed two significant leaders, including the bomb-maker in the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania...
...Once and Present Future. The Museum of the City of New York has the exhibit Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson - black-and-white pictures of razed sections of New York City, taken between 1982 and 1984, depicting the aftermath of the last economic crisis, in the 1970s. Through March 8, 2009. 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street, New York...