Zoe Cunningham is an odd duck. The only child of a young widow, she is raised as if in a bubble, developing an insular primness and glum sobriety. Bush irks Beijing China angrily declared that President Bush's promise to do ''whatever it took'' to defend Taiwan would further damage China-U.S. relations. Democrats say that Bush is looking out for special interests only and that his speed on rolling out his tax-cut plan proves it. Salvaging a nerve from the ankle, surgeons can rewire the penis to help men who suffer erectile dysfunction after operations to remove cancerous prostate glands.
Doctors say the nerve grafts allow some men to regain sexual function.
If it works, the cells will grow as they would in a developing pig and create a new connection in Charles Dederick's spine, damaged in a 1997 motorcycle accident. If electric impulses can again flow from his brain, they could send signals to the muscles and possibly allow him to walk again. It was the first of a dozen similar human experiments approved by the Food and Drug Administration. A warning on warming Rising temperatures could damage buildings, roads, pipelines and other structures in the Northern Hemisphere that may settle because of thawing permafrost, a study has found. University of Delaware researchers, writing in the journal Nature, said they calculated the effects of thawing permafrost using a sophisticated computer model based on projections of global warming.