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...uber-search engine Google sent a shiver of fear down the spine of editors everywhere last week when it launched its automated news site. But while News.google.com is fast and complete, TIME.com managing editor Joshua Macht notes, there's just no substitute for the human touch...
...Every life that was lost that day should remind us to stay united. It unfortunately takes such a tragedy to strengthen America's spine." TERRI VANGORDEN Elmira...
...that happen? Until recently, accepted wisdom was that spinal tissue can never regrow, but that's being rethought. McDonald has conducted studies with spine-injured rats in which some of the animals are given no therapy after injury and others are given exercise. When their cords are later examined, the stimulated animals show new cell growth at the site of the lesion. "We believe," says McDonald, "that we can induce selective and robust cell growth...
...dogs injured in accidents has shown that an alternating electric current applied directly to a damaged spinal cord can restore movement in the legs if administered in the first two weeks after injury. Scientists speculate that the current helps one type of nerve cell line up along the spine, creating a template that can guide other neurons across gaps in the cord...
...tourists might have doubts about Flores (arrivals last year barely topped 11,000, fewer than Bali's Denpasar airport handles on a busy day). Eight volcanoes grumble and belch sulfurous steam along the island's twisted, 360-kilometer spine. Most of them have erupted in the past century or two. The surrounding seabed is crosshatched with fault lines. Maumere, in the local dialect, means "big sea," suggesting the recent tsunami wasn't the first. It doesn't help that the noisy bemos?gaudily painted minibuses that zip around the snaking roads?are emblazoned with biblical names like Golgotha, Revelation...