Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old P.L.A.Y. program provides children with coaches, activities, clinics and camps. P.L.A.Y. is also sponsoring project Reuse-a-Shoe, which turns old shoes into sports surfaces...
...these tools have revolutionized neurosurgery but, just as in his lab work, Black keeps pushing to improve them. He is advising a student, for example, on a project aimed at essentially bringing functional MRI into the operating room in real time. This would permit a surgeon to re-image the brain constantly during surgery in order to observe the changing geography of the brain as the operation progresses. Black is also seeking advances in noninvasive surgery, used when a tumor is so deeply embedded in eloquent tissue that it cannot be cut out. Surgeons now use focused beams...
...forests that still cloak the sides of the volcanoes that form the spine of Savai'i. Here he hopes the villagers will agree to "make the biggest national park in the whole world," before the chain saws get there too. He wants them to become as excited about the project as he is, rather than have the impetus come from outside. Behind this goal lies a philosophy that runs through Cox's work: helping native people understand the wealth of their heritage so that they will want to preserve it rather than sell it. Since it's no less than...
Such thorny human concerns are at the heart of a pioneering research effort that is bent on clinically identifying the long-term emotional and social effects of early genetic testing. Directed by neuropsychologist Jason Brandt of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the project enlists the talents of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, geneticists and ethicists to track the consequences of testing for the genetic mutation that causes deadly Huntington's disease. The program, says Brandt, "is seeking to determine how best to offer this test...
...azar and tuberculosis. TB is a special problem today because kala-azar has so weakened the Nuer's immune system that any subsequent infection is often fatal. In August, McHarg dispatched Seaman to Ethiopia to survey a new outbreak of kala-azar. Seaman is also working on a pilot project to try out a drug for kala-azar that will cost a tenth the price of Pentostam...