Word: saint
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...group's experiment is "that there is much more capacity for response to brain injury than previously thought." The same conclusion has been reached by researchers who have regenerated nerve fibers in other parts of animals' brains as well as in their spinal cords. At Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for instance, Neuroscientist William Freed has treated rats with fetal cell implants to relieve symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease in humans. The implanted cells are capable of producing dopamine, a vital brain chemical lacking in the afflicted rats and in Parkinson's patients. Such techniques...
Single women living with their parents are among the most conspicuous consumers. They outfit themselves with imported designer ensembles, including Louis Vuitton handbags ($750), Hermes scarves ($166) and Yves Saint Laurent shoes ($133). Japanese women also spend heavily on traditional dress. An upper-middle-class woman may own 25 kimonos with a total value of at least...
...Harvard professor has computed the selection of tenured professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the canonization of a saint. He is not too far off. The search for and appointment of scholars to Harvard's chairs and other permanent position is one of the most exacting negating and in the view of some critics, impractical in all of academia...
...rack of antlers has a horrified, spiky erectness. We are shown a teeming, hostile world where everything studies the next species with blood or hunger in its eye; these acts of watching are traced out with lines, zapping like lasers-or the emblems of stigmatization in Sassetta's Saint...
...Pope traveled next to the monastery of Niepokalanow, 30 miles west of Warsaw, to pay tribute to Poland's newest saint: Father Maximilian Kolbe. While a prisoner in Auschwitz in 1941, Kolbe volunteered to die in the place of another Polish inmate who had a wife and children. He was canonized by John Paul in a solemn pontifical ceremony last October in the Vatican...