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...their couch. The Gilberts had been husband and wife for 51 years. They were married in 1934, the year after Calvin Coolidge died, the year after Prohibition was lifted, the year that Hank Aaron was born. At 73, Emily had Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis; her spinal column was gradually collapsing. Roswell would not allow her to continue life as "a suffering animal," so he committed what is called a mercy killing The jury saw only the killing; they felt Gilbert had mercy on himself. He was sentenced to 25 years with no chance of parole, which would make...
...schooling was so desultory that at the age of nine he was still unable to read. When he was 20, better educated but still without focus, he was struck by a car as he cycled along an English country road. From then on he lived with increasing pain until spinal injuries and heart failure killed him 13 years later. But in that period he summoned up his childhood and adolescence and transformed them into art. His tales were produced with a combination of will, eidetic memory and emotional immaturity. His skills were those of a polished ironist, but his obsessions...
GELDOF The condom issue is relevant, but it's not the single relevant point. Ratzinger [now Pope Benedict XVI], from what I understand, put the spinal cord into John Paul's theology on the poor. His more profound theologies are to do with the psalm of the poor, if you like. I just invited him to sing a psalm up at Edinburgh...
...suffering from a variety of injuries and disorders--and grown with unprecedented efficiency into early embryos lined with stem cells. The development, published online by the journal Science, takes doctors an important step closer to creating custom stem-cell treatments for everything from Alzheimer's disease to severed spinal cords...
Keirstead is doing his best by demonstrating the field's potential. He and his team published details earlier this month of how they helped paralyzed rats walk again by using human embryonic stem cells to aid regeneration of spinal-cord tissue. That is a tiny step, at best, toward therapies for people but, Keirstead says, "I've never seen anything that looks as good as the human embryonic stem cell." He can only hope that policymakers, too, will agree. --By Jeff Chu. With reporting by Eric Ferkenhoff/ Chicago, Elisabeth Kauffman/ Nashville and Terry McCarthy/ Los Angeles