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Garakani bluntly explained the Ilizarov bone-stretching surgical procedure, developed in the Soviet Union to correct dwarfism, which Dr. Victor Frankel, president and head of orthopedic surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Joint Diseases, intended to introduce into the U. S. The shin, thigh and upper-arm bones would be cut clear through, leaving only the bone cavity and the marrow intact. A special frame, with steel pins going through the bone on each side of the cut, would keep the pieces in line and allow them to be pulled apart a millimeter a day. New bone would form...
...near the ceiling, to the window, with its view of drab gray apartment buildings, not sky. The family was looking on. "We'll make a cut here, and one here, if we can," said Dr. Frankel, drawing imaginary lines across the top and the bottom of Reza's right shin. Two cuts would divide the shin into three pieces, allowing it to be stretched at two points. "Or a single cut here if calculations prove his tibia too short for two cuts," said Dr. Lehman, touching the middle of the shin. The doctors did not know yet whether the bone...
Michael D. Shin...
These students work in the schools through two separate Harvard programs: HAND and Phillips Brooks House (PBH). Together, PBH and the Public Service Program--of which HAND is a major component--provide most of the public service opprtunities on campus, says Milbert Shin '87-88, student coordinator of the the Public Service Program, which was started in 1982 with funding from the University...
Public service "is addictive," Shin says. "Once volunteers see what's going on, its hard to turn back." And Rogers says, "I just love it. You get a special feeling that you can't get doing anything else--there's no way you can get that feeling from...