Word: scar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...touch of evil already lurks in Harry's world. A wizard who took up the Dark Arts killed his parents, but could not kill Harry, who was left with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. This mark makes him instantly recognizeable in the wizard world...
Then Jesus came forward and silently indicated that I should follow him into the lake. Waist deep in the water, I felt him pour handfuls down the long fresh scar on my back--the relic of unsuccessful surgery a month before. Jesus suddenly told me, "Your sins are forgiven." Appalled by my dire physical outlook, I thought ungratefully, "That's the last thing I need"; so I asked him, "Am I also cured?" He said, "That too." Then, as though I'd forced his hand, he turned and climbed ashore with me well behind...
Rosengart performed the operation in mid-January. He made a 5-in. incision in my back--the scar feels as if I could mail letters through it--and pried open ribs (which still ache when I sneeze) to expose the heart, which he injected 20 times with a cold virus and DNA that instructs the heart: Grow vessels here...
Remarkably, there are other people--sober, scientific people--who agree. For centuries, doctors have considered the spinal cord an impossible thing to heal. Choked by proteins that block regeneration, denied other proteins that foster growth, dammed up by scar tissue at the site of an injury, a spinal cord that gets hurt tends to stay hurt. But for more than a decade, researchers have been learning to overcome these problems, figuring out ways to heal damaged cords and switch the power back on in spines long since gone dead. Even if Reeve and others don't walk by 2002, there...
...without the wall? For decades, the ugly scar across the face of Berlin offered a navigational beacon to the governments of the world. It reminded them of who they were and who they were not, and differentiated friend from...