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...case. From a nursing manual, she learned that when there is evidence of severe pressure inside the skull, a lumbar puncture is usually performed only as a last-ditch diagnostic test because it can result in a portion of the brain's being pushed down into the spine, possibly causing death. According to the manual, a brain scan should be performed first...
...helps that the nation is asking these questions at a time of year when it is otherwise busy squinting up at tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season...
...taxes, or relinquishing first place in the line for civil service jobs. It will mean accepting the notion that Black Americans really do have grievances, and that those grievances are the work of white Americans. It will mean admitting guilt, and that means getting past the stiffening of the spine in resentment--as the CCA, or The Crimson, did--when accused...
...immediately saw bodies," he recalls. "Suddenly, the reality of war was driven home." Less than a year later, while trying to lead a company of reluctant Vietnamese soldiers up a hill near Con Thien, he was struck in the chest by a Viet Cong bullet that severed his spine...
...yards away. One shattered the two joints of the ring finger of his left hand, ricocheted and grazed his right arm. The other blasted into his abdomen, passing completely through his body and ripping up the Pope's intestines but narrowly missing his pancreas, abdominal aorta and spine. For 5 hr. 25 min., as rumors flew around the world and hospital patients in bathrobes mingled with Italian dignitaries and journalists to exchange shocked speculation, surgeons labored to take out several pieces of the Pope's intestine and perform a colostomy, which would remove wastes outside his body...