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...panic that hit him the first few times his ventilator stopped functioning, the love of his family that keeps him going. He and his wife chose Walters after being pursued by virtually every interviewer in the business. "Our main goal was to get a message out about what a spinal-cord injury is," Reeve says. "We wanted to make sure that our story was not trivialized or sensationalized. I felt after watching Barbara Walters for so many years that she would be the best qualified to help us with that...
...doubt that the Boston area is filled with first-rate medical facilities that can handle the emergency needs of Harvard students. However, the time it takes to travel for this care could honestly be the difference between recovery and permanent damage for patients with heart attacks or spinal injury...
When they arrived, they placed her in a body cast for fear she had suffered spinal injuries. Luckily, her injuries were minor...
RECOVERING. LOU HOLTZ, 58, Notre Dame football coach; from 4 1/2 hours of surgery to relieve debilitating spinal-cord pressure; at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Though he is improving, Holtz will be on the bench for at least two more weeks...
...master architects in a surprisingly broad range of animals, from rodents to roundworms. These gossamer strands of DNA -- known as homoeotic homeobox genes, or Hox genes for short -- lay out the embryo from head to tail, controlling everything from the development of limbs and the wiring of the spinal cord to the patterning of the gut and urogenital tracts. "What's amazing," says University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Neil Shubin, "is that evolution of complex structures appears to be controlled by this same small set of genes...