BOSTON — A Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the nation’s first full face transplant at a Boston hospital. The accident in November 2008 left Wiens blind and without lips, a nose or eyebrows. In Boston, doctors transplanted an entire new face, including a nose, lips, skin and muscles and nerves that animate the skin and give sensation.
FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Gray smoke rose from two reactor units Monday, temporarily stalling critical work to reconnect power lines and restore cooling systems to stabilize Japan’s radiation-leaking nuclear complex. Workers are racing to bring the nuclear plant under control, but the process is proceeding in fits and starts, stalled by incidents like the smoke and by the need to work methodically to make sure wiring, pumps and other machinery can be safely switched on.
TUCSON, Ariz. — As the final horn sounded and his teammates mobbed each other near midcourt, Chase Tapley collapsed to the floor. The crook of his elbows propped against his knees, the San Diego State sophomore guard looked to the rafters, took a big breath with a bigger exhale and then looked to the floor.
CHICAGO — Oh yeah, VCU belongs in the NCAA Tournament. The real question now: Who can stop the Rams?
Not every NCAA Tournament game is a classic. Some are instant duds, such as Florida State’s destruction of Notre Dame. Ben Hansbrough and the Irish fizzled and went down without much of a fight Sunday night.
Butler is at it again. So are the boys from Tobacco Road. The Bluegrass State has a team, and the Cheeseheads have two. There’s room for four double-digit seeds but only two from the not-so-spectacular Big East. And, of course, there’s The Jimmer.
STORRS, Conn. — Stefanie Dolson scored all 12 of her points in the first half to lead a balanced Connecticut offense, and the top-seeded Huskies routed No. 16 seed Hartford 75-39 on Sunday in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
INDIANAPOLIS — The little team that could just might outdo itself this season.
CARSON CITY — Week 7 of the Nevada Legislature starts today with a marathon day that will include a student protest over higher education cuts and the first nighttime floor meetings of the 2011 session as legislators rush to meet the deadline for individual bill introductions.
CHICAGO — The scene was familiar to any Florida State fan: Seminoles players doing the tomahawk chop in front of a rowdy crowd.
For 23-year-old Amanda Schaum, Youth Offender Court equipped her with the necessary skills to kick her prescription drug habit and become one of the specialty drug court program’s first graduates.
