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...detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty and even play basketball with her daughter...
...their pride in him: "I had been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...
...bathroom horror stories, you just wear a towel," says Cunningham...
...latest example of the Ad Board meting out sentences way out of line with the severity of the crime. For example, just three months ago the Ad Board booted two Leverett House sophomores for a year after a series of intersuite practical jokes accidentally culminated in a cologne-soaked towel's briefly catching fire...
Some home-gym owners hire consultants, at $20 an hour and up, to coach them on new equipment, devise an exercise regimen or provide encouragement. No one knows how many of those who are initially eager eventually throw in the towel. According to one survey this year, only 20% of buyers of home devices remain steady users. "The biggest problem with doing this stuff is boredom," says Attorney Robert Gelfman, 54, who pedals a bike in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home three or four times a week. His solution: placing a book on an adjacent music stand. Says Gelfman...