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...neuroscientist who made the greatest progress in a given year. In February, Reeve did the Larry King Live show, making an explicit appeal for donations for the American Paralysis Association--another considerable success. The following month he took part in the dedication ceremony for a new $18 million rehabilitation unit at the St. Francis Health Care Center in Green Springs, Ohio...
...explosives-unit chief Tom Thurman and his associates will be looking for what is called "observable bomb damage" in the wreckage. Says Chris Ronay, a retired FBI agent who preceded Thurman as head of the unit: "They call us the blacksmiths of the laboratory. We don't use too much sophisticated instrumentation. We use hammers and trowels and microscopes." Members of the unit will be studying the plane's metal surfaces for tiny pitting that could have been caused by an explosion that would have melted tiny pieces of metal and sent them, and other tiny bits of debris, shooting...
Christopher F. Hayes, director of the Neighborhood Crime Watch unit for the Boston Police Department, who opened the speech-making portion of the event, said the day was important for many reasons...
Stephen Cohen, a developer with the Cambridge-based CEA Group, purchased the property at 33 Linnaean St. in April. Residents said he plans to build a four-story, multiple-unit condominium complex on the site, which currently houses an 1871 house and a private garden...
...skin and infrastructure, looking for metal damage characteristic of a powerful bomb blast. "An explosion generates temperatures and velocities of detonation that are far greater than those encountered in a crash scenario due to mechanical failure," says Chris Ronay, Thurman's predecessor as chief of the FBI bomb unit. "You get torturing, feathering, pitting and tearing in metal that's entirely different from damage inflicted by a fire or a fall...