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...lets them hold virtual meetings anytime and anyplace. No more playing telephone tag or pulling down an e-mail screen. Instead, IM users can spot who is online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would have instantly shared their expertise...
...deep proof of our need to spill, and keep on spilling, lies in reflex, often in desperate circumstances. A number of years ago, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine in Paris, was felled by a stroke so destructive that the only part of his body that could move was his left eyelid. Flicking that eyelid, he managed to signal the letters of the alphabet, and proceeded to write his autobiography, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, with the last grand gesture of his life...
...practical level, we hope it's going to help improve functional outcome after a stroke or spinal injury," he said...
After the body suffers a stroke or spinal cord injury, the central nervous system is unable to reestablish its connections through the nerve cells, therefore causing severe and often permanent loss of mobility...
...benefits, especially in stroke victims, would be two-fold, Benowitz said, according to his laboratory research. A major problem with strokes is that not only are cells damaged, but also, cells that are not immediately killed lose their connections and die out over time...