Electrical impulses to the intercostal muscles of the chest and to the phrenic nerve that stimulates the diaphragm allow Cecil to pull air into his lungs without the machine that's ridden the back of his wheelchair the past two years.
Conventional wisdom says there's always bad weather for the Farm Show.
A battle that pits teacher job security against business concerns is in the making at Cumberland Perry Area Vocational Technical School. But where students will fit into the fray has yet to be addressed. Those kids will never get the chance to finish what they came for. Hill says teachers typically used the grace period to recruit students into a lagging program and to revise the curriculum to attract students and better reflect the job market. In doing so, the teacher may have saved the course - and his or her job.