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...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...
...Freehand is not for everyone, though. To benefit from the device, patients must have use of a shoulder and upper arm and partial use of their hands. The technology can be fragile, too, and patients must be constantly on guard against infection around the implanted electronics. Another drawback is that the Freehand system provides no tactile feedback for things like temperature, so users also have to be careful when handling hot objects such as cigarettes or coffee. To get around this problem, Thomas Sinkjaer and colleagues at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Denmark's Aalborg University are developing...
Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed - in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernán Cortés' 1,600 men slaughtering more than 1 million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
...have articles written about him calling him unworthy to be a host. And no Harvard student who has been working hard on planning the day for the past few months deserves to have Summers show such disrespect. Cultural Rhythms is supposed to be about more than just name-dropping, shoulder-rubbing and bad politics, but that’s how it was treated by many this year. What a shame...
Ingram opened the scoring in the first period after a collision involving herself, Tiger’s senior defenceman Wanda Mason and sophomore goalie Megan Van Beusekom. Ingram got a stick on the puck and popped it up in the air and over Van Beukesom’s shoulder for the goal...