Word: bladed
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...corner of the Olympic Oval in Calgary left Klassen with a horrific gash in her forearm. Lying on the ice in shock, Klassen didn't fully comprehend her predicament until she began to read the expressions on the faces of the skaters and coaches surrounding her. A blade had severed tendons, an ulnar nerve and, most dangerously, a major artery...
...million times," says Martin, 32, who won bronze with Grimmette in '98, silver in '02 and is chasing the U.S.'s first-ever luge gold. At the rink, with so many partners ending up in - and out of - romances, the athletes call the skating soap opera As the Blade Turns. "Being a skating partner is like being in a marriage, without the sex," says top U.S. ice dancer Ben Agosto, whose partnership with newly minted U.S. citizen Tanith Belbin, a Canada native, could yield the first U.S. ice-dancing medal since 1976. "Well, for some people." Agosto and Belbin...
...rink, with so many partners ending up inand out ofromances, the athletes call the skating soap opera As the Blade Turns. "Being a skating partner is like being in a marriage, without the sex," says top U.S. ice dancer Ben Agosto, whose partnership with newly minted U.S. citizen Tanith Belbin, a Canada native, could yield the U.S.'s first ice-dancing medal since 1976. "Well, for some people." Agosto and Belbin are not romantically involved...
Abruptly King swerved into a third oratorical run, retelling of his brush with death when a demented woman stabbed him at a Harlem bookstore in 1958--how a doctor told the New York Times that the blade would have severed his aorta if he so much as sneezed, and how a little girl wrote a simple letter of thanks that he did not sneeze. "I want to say that I am happy that I didn't sneeze," said King, "because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960 when students all over the South started...
...Tanzania they're encouraged to. How you cut an umbilical cord can determine whether a baby risks a fatal infection, but every culture has its own traditions. They cut with a coin for luck in Nepal and a stone in Bolivia, where they think if you use a razor blade the child will grow up to be a thief. There is no one solution to fit all countries, and so the model the Gates Foundation and Bono have embraced pulls in everyone, at every level. Think globally. Act carefully. Prove what works. Then use whatever levers you have...