Nuss looks at the monitor in the operating room as he maneuvers a tool called an introducer into Gabe's chest. The introducer creates the path that the corrective bar will follow when it is inserted. He takes a steel bar and slides it into one of the chest openings and maneuvers it beneath the breastbone and over to the other side.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
