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...need to be alert to the possibility that nerves or the blood supply in the affected limb may have been cut off, requiring you to pull gently and straighten it out before splinting to restore circulation and sensation. Otherwise, the accident victim could permanently lose use of that arm or leg. As a rule, if you're not seriously injured and you know your way back and can move under your own power, it's better to hike out than wait for rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilderness 911? | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...begins my education by showing me dry-fly casting on a path above the river. Move the arm, not the wrist; keep the arc of the cast between 2 and 10 o'clock. But today the fish we are going for, whitefish and cutthroats, are loitering on the bottom. So we will wet cast and roll cast instead, with little weights on the line and flies that look like nymphs. Roll casting requires less arm movement. You swing out the line upriver and let it drift down in a natural motion. I find I'm not half bad at this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YVON CHOUINARD: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...rapacious toy collector is leaning over the old man repairing the torn arm of a small cloth figure. "So how long is this gonna take?" Al shouts. And the gnomish artisan snaps back with a rage born in loving care, "You can't! Push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TS2: Sneak Preview | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...arm for war, and hope, without delay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PfoHo Ode | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Littleton shooting should be seen for what it has become; one great big shot in the arm for the Christian right. While the country has been drooling over our recent prosperity, the Christian right has quietly been infiltrating the school boards of the country and pushing a pro-Christian, pro-prayer, anti-evolution platform...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Learning the Wrong Lesson | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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