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...York burn specialists and their patients are benefiting from some remarkable recent advances in operating-room techniques and a more sophisticated understanding of how the body reacts to severe burns. "Patients who 20 or 30 years ago would have died now survive the injury," says Lisa Staiano-Coico, dean of research at Cornell University Medical College and the team's wound-healing specialist. "Now the issue becomes one of how do we ameliorate the burn wound, how do we improve the rate of healing with less scarring. Now it's gone beyond survival...
...children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected its forests...
...Friday evening they won't be that far apart," said Catherine E. Watson, a public affairs specialist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston...
...that my moods weren't merely molecular. Then the inevitable slippage started. With plottable predictability, as if my brain were a slowly draining beaker, my sense of well-being sank and sank until I felt lower and darker than ever before. I went back to a doctor--a specialist this time--and asked flat out for Prozac, by then the subject of books and articles. One week later I felt fully restored and resigned myself to a humbling new self-image: neurochemical robot. I felt like one of those cutaway human heads used in TV commercials for decongestants...
...probe comes too close, it could re-enter the atmosphere at 42,000 m.p.h. and vaporize, releasing enough plutonium to be inhaled by millions of people. The radiation from P-238 is harmless under most conditions, but breathing in particles of it can be deadly. It is, says cancer specialist and protester Dr. Janice Kirsch, "the stuff nightmares are made of. One exposure can lead to cancer...