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Some sports look grueling - ice hockey, soccer, basketball, for example, with their yards of stops and starts, feints and runs. Others, like gymnastics, appear effortless and soaring. But in the first national study of gymnastics injuries, conducted by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, 16 years of data show that there is nothing easy at all about gymnastics, and that injuries from the sport are as common as those in soccer, basketball and ice hockey - making gymnastics among the most dangerous sports for girls...
...same elegantly designed room. In the earlier setting, the story centers on the dialogue of the tutor Septimus Hodge (Jonah C. Priour ’09) and his pupil Thomasina Coverly (Sara L. Wright ’09). Several extramarital affairs, one Romanticism-satirizing landscape remodeling, and the fleeting appearance of Lord Byron at the manor comprise the basic machinations of this plot. The modern setting focuses on Hannah Jarvis (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09) and Bernard Nightingale (Chris J. Carothers ’11), bickering academics studying the events of 1809 and looking to make big discoveries...
...realities of urban life in Baltimore. “I began to realize the fraud of the drug war,” Simon said, speaking from his experience as a journalist. “The drug war had become increasingly untenable on many sides as policy and began to appear immoral.”Simon nevertheless admitted that, while his years of work for the Baltimore Sun made him a witness to the inner-city drug trade, his rendition of the story of Baltimore was imperfect. “I’m not under the illusion that the show...
...keep it simple and keep the ball moving.”So explains the Harvard women’s soccer team’s Lizzy Nichols, in her usual uncomplicated manner, when asked to describe her style of play. Yet her inclusion in the sports pages, it would appear, bucks a general trend.As aesthetically attractive as soccer is as a spectacle, one of the reasons for its enduring appeal is its simplicity. Yet despite this, players encapsulating this approach are the ones often overlooked by the majority of people. Read the soccer coverage in newspapers—the emphasis tends...
...raucous London and Paris legs appear to have surprised Chinese officials. French popular concern over human rights conditions in China took root only following the brutal suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott...