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NATIONAL Events could decide race The presidential candidates have spent hundreds of millions on TV ads, crisscrossed the country dozens of times and are preparing to meet in their third and final debate. But with the 2004 election still very much up for grabs, events could play a decisive role in the outcome. [Page 1a] Reeve praised for research role In the nine years since on-screen superhero Christopher Reeve tumbled from a horse and broke his neck, the field of spinal cord injury research has been all but transformed.