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Culture: Novelist Reynolds Price discusses his new book, an account of his 10- year struggle with spinal cancer...
...decade has passed since spinal cancer seemed sure to foreclose one of the most esteemed careers in contemporary American writing. At that time a physician cousin told the family that Price's prospects were "six months to paraplegia, six months to quadriplegia, six months to death." He endured multiple surgeries, steroids that distorted his mind and body, torturous physical therapy that proved unavailing, massive leaks of spinal fluid and altogether understandable despair. When the battle was over, when the addictive pain-killers and useless back braces and countless other palliatives were tossed aside, he was paralyzed and in perpetual pain...
...Breast implants have been firmly linked for the first time to multiple sclerosis-like symptoms, including brain and spinal lesions, pain, fatigue and nerve problems...
...woman died of natural causes but in agony nonetheless. She had suffered from arthritis, osteoporosis and malnutrition; her teeth were rotten; and an improperly set broken leg had led to a huge bone abscess. The infant, probably a girl, was malnourished too. Her last weeks had been marked by spinal meningitis and a brain inflammation. The man had been sedentary and overweight; his death at around 50 was sudden, perhaps from a heart attack...
...prowess to prey upon creatures far larger than the cats are. Her massive shoulders and forelimbs can grip and bring down a gaur, a wild, oxlike animal that may weigh more than a ton. Her powerful jaws and daggerlike teeth can rip the victim's throat or sever its spinal column, making quick work of the kill. But there will be no killing at this moment. After padding along a park road for a mere 100 yds., the tigress abruptly melts into the brush -- here one instant, gone the next. Watching her disappear, Indian biologist Ullas Karanth of New York...