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...Nerve Transplant In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet for the rest...
JUNIOR FIX-ITS Children as young as eight are replacing parents as the modern household's repair experts. New surveys show that the technological generation gap between adults who grew up with simpler appliances and the e-generation of computer-game-literate kids has grown to the point where three out of four parents admit that they depend on their children to program new phones and stop VCR clocks from blinking...
...Odessa Instant Shoe Repair in Cambridge, employee Steve Santos said polish can make or break a person's overall appearance and shoe care...
...Microsoft. But high-tech industries employ only about 9% of the U.S. work force. Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men--especially those from lower-income families--might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that pay an average of $850 a week rather than taking on a load of college debt. Some social critics blame a dearth of male role models among schoolteachers, and a culture that promotes anti-intellectualism among boys. And, especially in inner cities, crime and gangs entice more boys than...
...right. Stunned by the gargantuan cost of the program, which more than 22,000 Arizonans rushed to sign up for, state lawmakers remained hunkered down last week in a rancorous session that was called to repair the damage. One plan under consideration would limit the rebates to the 6,000 buyers who have already paid for or picked up their vehicles, thus paring the cost of the program to $200 million...