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Although chiropractic clearly has its drawbacks (notably its stubborn insistence that spinal misalignments cause or underlie most ailments, including those far afield from the backbone), its use of vertebral manipulation has proved useful not only in treating acute low-back pain and other muscular and neurological problems but also in comforting patients who appreciate the deft way skilled chiropractors use their hands. (Osteopaths, licensed physicians whose education is essentially the same as that of M.D.s, also include manipulative therapy in their treatments.) Studies at the University of Miami School of Medicine's Touch Research Institute have found that premature infants...
Microsurgery and gene guns are the newest weapons doctors are using to coax stubborn hair follicles to bloom again. Microsurgically implanted grafts with one or two hairs each result in less puckering and bleeding than do larger implants with more hairs. With gene guns (still experimental), doctors might have an efficient way of delivering a new hair directly into a follicle by encasing it in a bullet made of fat. More encouraging yet, this year researchers studying a genetic disorder that causes hair and tooth loss identified the first gene that may be associated with baldness. They speculate that...
...date are nearly impossible to explain without some archaeology into the soil he sprang from and the paths he traveled to get here. We all have the defects of our qualities. In Dole's case, the very traits that help account for his successes--the cutting wit, the stubborn independence, the refusal to ask for help even when stakes are highest--also produced the more horrible moments of this campaign, when he seemed to be running for some other office in some other century on some other planet. Ultimately, says one of his primary rivals, "Dole's campaign...
...4x100-m freestyle and the 4x100-m medley, and captured two individual golds, in the 100-m butterfly and the 50-m freestyle--a win that crowns her "the world's fastest woman" in water. She also charmed a worldwide television audience with her exuberant personality. "I'm really stubborn," she reflected, recalling her treatment in high school. "If someone tells me I stink, I'm going to try to prove them wrong...
...other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could recall, he copied down the novels that would shame the Suharto dictatorship by taking on the name of its island prison and give the stubborn writer a reputation as Indonesia's Solzhenitsyn. And thus, so it is widely believed, make him Asia's leading candidate for a Nobel Prize...