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...Posterior instability in an athlete is unusual, and in a golfer it's some concern because the ball is sliding backward in the socket," Hawkins said. "We used lasers and heat to shrink it down and try to create some stability. This is a new procedure and without it we would have had to cut into the shoulder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HILIGHTS | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...could see the figure of Our Lord on it"). Existing crease marks, says Wilson, explain the way in which today's shroud might be folded to display only the head but unfolded for the benefit of special viewers. He then creates a plausible chronology for the image extending backward to Edessa (located in central Turkey), where legend dates it to Jesus' era, and forward again via those larcenous Crusaders to Lirey, where its modern history begins. The time line, of course, contradicts the 1988 results. "All this inevitably gives rise to the question," Wilson writes in his new book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Pentagon long ago concluded that Cuba is no military threat to the U.S.,? says TIME correspondent Doug Waller. ?In fact the military privately favors normalizing relations with Havana -- they think our policy down there is pretty backward. But such conclusions inflame the passions of legislators who want to present Cuba in a more menacing light.? All of which leaves Cohen to do some creative editing in order to humor those who believe ?Red Dawn? was a documentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cohen Holds Back Cuba Report | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Late last week, the Internet took a giant leap forward, or backward, depending on whom you believe. But you're not likely to hear about this development in PC Week or MacWorld magazine...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: On-Line Journalism Questioned | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

...excellent and tightly focused show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, this has happily changed. Curated by Carolyn Lanchner, the show is not exhaustingly large: it consists of only 56 paintings and 24 drawings. But it makes you realize that if you thought you already knew Leger backward and forward, you were probably wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Visual Slang | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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