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Familial dysautonomia is a rare recessive genetic disorder that results from improper development of the autonomic nervous system. This means that Avigail’s body cannot perform many involuntary nervous responses—such as swallowing, blinking, or turning off adrenaline production if she gets upset—and she does not feel visceral pain. Any time Avigail is distressed, the failure of her nervous system to properly regulate hormones, like adrenaline, puts her at risk for going into a life-threatening dysautonomic crisis...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Helps Kid, Finds New Home | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...motives. Some bloggers say he collects dirt on companies to demand payouts in exchange for keeping quiet. (He denies the accusation, saying the companies he targets are too powerful to bother with hush money.) Others claim he is secretly funded by powerful businessmen who want to make their competitors nervous. Gazprom even published a two-page article in a corporate publication attacking Navalny for his pursuit of criminal charges in a deal involving a Gazprom subsidiary, accusing him of "terrorizing" state-owned companies in order to build "political capital." The article also ridiculed him as a bumbling version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Erin Brockovich: Taking On Corporate Greed | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...Asian states worry that an alternative order based on the superiority of the Chinese civilization will eventually become hierarchical. A still insecure and internally weak China has largely pursued win-win economic relationships to appease a nervous region. But if its domestic example is anything to go by - where the authority of the CCP to wield power and control resources is absolute and dissent is harshly treated - a dominant Middle Kingdom might show little future restraint in the relentless quest to enhance China's national power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perception Gap | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...think we both started off a little bit nervous,” West said...

Author: By Evan J. Zepfel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Final Collegiate Match, West Wins National Title | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...first day, we came out a little too tense and nervous because we had high expectations,” co-captain Tommy Gray said. “We took a big hit that first day, but we had a great meeting after the final session and we were a ton better the next two days...

Author: By Steven T. A. Roach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Second at Ivy Champs | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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