Word: spined
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Harvard’s stake in PetroChina is “a highly symbolic investment,” Reeves said. He said the University would “send a chill up the spine of all institutional shareholders of PetroChina” if the endowment fund dropped its stake in the company...
...would be heartening to see some spine in America’s leaders when it comes to overhauling the way domestic security funds are allocated. No one denies that small states and rural states have a right to federal funds for defense—certainly if they were left without Homeland Security funding they could become prime targets—but it is important to put these matters in perspective. Money should be allocated intelligently—not politically—using an assessment of potential risk by an apolitical agent. While admittedly no city or state would like...
...rough and tumble of Australia's impending federal election campaign may seem like a picnic to Labor Party leader Mark Latham compared to the acute pancreatitis that flattened him in Sydney last week. Centered in the stomach and seeming to bore through to the spine, the pain of the ailment is "among the most severe . . . it can be overwhelming," says Ross Smith, associate professor of surgery at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Lying down worsens the agony; only doubling over offers any relief until painkillers take effect...
...Huang's novel procedure involves injecting cells from a fetal olfactory bulb, the part of the brain where nose cells terminate, into the damaged area of the spinal cord. Huang says the transplanted olfactory cells help repair damaged nerve cells in the spine. Although he hasn't yet published his findings, the results so far seem compelling. "I'm pretty convinced of definite sensory improvement and modest motor improvement" in Huang's patients, says Dr. Wise Young, a prominent expert in spinal injuries and chairman of cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University (where Huang studied under Young...
...Huang is branching out. Eighteen months ago he began performing the surgery on patients suffering from the degenerative disease ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS kills most victims within five years. By transplanting OEG cells to just below the cortex of the brain and in the spine, Huang claims to have slowed the progress of the disease in "several" of his 40 patients, and offers video evidence of one who regained the ability to walk. Another patient, Chicago-based playwright Ben Byer, was diagnosed with ALS in 2002 and underwent surgery by Huang on July 20. Byer...