“I want to see it more in our tunnel fits in the NFL,” he said. “Take some fashion tips from the Met. Look at what everybody’s wearing and how they’re exploring fashion. I want to see how everybody expresses themselves and how they leave their mark in the fashion world.”
“We’re climbing Mount Everest,” Adama said.Standing on a bicycle wheel, Adama hesitated. Samba reached for him, setting him down on solid ground. There is a tiny scar on his forehead where broken skin has been stitched back together. Last year, Samba couldn’t explain his frequent falling, so she sought answers in Dakar. Rodriguez confirmed Adama had Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Gibriel’s genetic test results are pending. Children often lose the ability to run or climb stairs first, and later can’t walk or raise their arms. In adulthood, they develop heart and breathing problems.
Both boys are taking corticosteroids, which can slow disease progression for patients diagnosed early.“Without the medication, it would have been terrible. Once we started, after a few weeks we saw improvement,” Samba said. “Doctors are destined to investigate (the disease) and find a cure … I pray doctors will find a cure.”A man helps Adiaratou Ba, right, lift her son Mamadou, 13, suffering from a rare genetic disease, onto the curb in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
A man helps Adiaratou Ba, right, lift her son Mamadou, 13, suffering from a rare genetic disease, onto the curb in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Back at Fann Hospital, Rodriguez and Senghor consult with Woly Diene, 25, and her mother and brother. When Diene was 15, she started falling at school. Soon, she felt pain throughout her body. She couldn’t move. She lost her hearing, the strength in her hands and control of the muscles in her face.
Diene, who comes from a rural village in Senegal, has riboflavin transporter deficiency. High doses of vitamin B2—a supplement available on Amazon—can slow, stop and even reverse damage from this condition that is fatal without treatment.
Diene took her first dose when she was diagnosed in August 2023. She still has some difficulty hearing, but Diene is walking again. She has regained the strength in her face and hands. Diene’s brother Thierno said vitamin B2 is expensive, but he knows his sister needs it for the rest of her life., where he also was convicted and has appealed the verdict. Many defendants in U.S. criminal cases don’t take the stand: The Constitution
, and jurors are told they can’t hold such silence against the accused. Plus, testifying opens a defendant up to pointed questioning from prosecutors.Weinstein has been watching the New York retrial intently from the defense table, sometimes shaking his head at accusers’ testimony and often leaning over to one or another of his attorneys to convey his thoughts.
“He thinks that the evidence in this trial has been challenged very forcefully and that many of the complainants’ stories have been torn apart,” Aidala said after court Thursday.But “there is a part of him that is seriously contemplating whether — in a he-said, she-said case — human beings feel obligated to hear the other side of the story,” the attorney added.