Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Splint boots are placed on him at night and removed in the morning. They are made of a solid piece of strong plastic and are wrapped around each foot to prevent what is called foot drop. If Reeve did not have that support, his feet would eventually droop; this keeps them at a normal angle. His wrists and fingers have splints on them every night for the same purpose...
...Jane was working within 1/16 of an inch of the brain stem. He placed a wire under both lamina--the bony covering of the spinal cord. He took bone from Reeve's hip and squeezed it down to get a solid fit between the C1 and C2. Then he put in a titanium pin the shape of a tiny croquet wicket and fused the sublaminal wire with the first and second vertebrae. Finally, he drilled holes in Reeve's skull and passed the wires through to get a solid fusion...
...number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid number but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the soundtrack to the film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down...
...number 'Present Tense,' says Farley. 'No Code' is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision." Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy 'Who You Are' is a solid number but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the soundtrack to the film 'Dead Man Walking.' Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker 'Smile' sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down...
...chain so you don't have to worry!" yelled the woman, stroking her chubby cat. "It's pretty good anchorage here...good solid...