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...morning primp time: At least five or six hours before class starts because she needs to shower, get ready in front of the mirror and straighten up before she leaves...
...second cervical vertebra in a horseback-riding accident in 1995. But Reeve's doctors announced last week that a little of what the actor lost that day is coming back. He can move the other fingers of his left hand too, as well as his right wrist. He can straighten his arms and legs and, in a swimming pool, initiate a step and push off against the wall. And he can survive for up to two hours off his respirator. Most satisfying, he has regained a remarkable level of physical sensation. "[My wife] Dana likes to rest her hand...
...moving parts in the body, few take as much abuse as the knee. With the momentum of each step, your knee joint absorbs three times your body weight. Straighten up from a deep squat, and the pressure on the joint can reach nine times your weight. Throw in a few falls or sharp blows, and that knee of yours will eventually wear out--and, in due time, develop painful osteoarthritis. That's why last week's news about a popular form of surgery to relieve pain from arthritis of the knee was so devastating...
...home from its travels on the World Wide Web. Use Options or Preferences to get rid of unwanted cookies and clean out your cache files. Give your computer a blood test by going on the Web and downloading the latest in antivirus software. Then run a disk defragmenter to straighten out the tangle of files stored on your hard drive. This can speed up your computer's performance. But as with any major renovation, you should back up important documents beforehand, just to be safe...
...this case, it also took on-location filming in windswept, fogbound Newfoundland and some post-production fiddling. Hallström gripes a little about the tweaks done in response to test screenings: "With this one, which was meant to be crooked, you can't straighten it out too much," he says. Nonetheless, he's "very proud" of the end result, which is "mysterious and ambiguous and moody...