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...meniscus, and his availability for the remainder of the season would need to be reevaluated...Sophomore defensive lineman Michael Berg, who is playing despite a cracked fibula in his left leg, left Saturday’s game as a result of leg cramps caused by dehydration. The broken bone, however, is fine, and he will remain available throughout the week...Harvard is now one of just two undefeated teams left in Division I-AA following Jacksonville State’s 16-13 loss to Tennessee Tech. The only other school with an unblemished record is Cal Poly, which escaped with...
...years ago, my mother went for her annual checkup and added a new word to her vocabulary--osteopenia. She was well aware of osteoporosis, the bone thinning that occurs with age, but had never heard of its precursor. Having osteopenia meant she had low bone mass and was at greater risk of developing osteoporosis and perhaps breaking a hip or other bones in the years ahead...
Ellroy ordered a T-bone steak for dinner and attacked it with the intensity he brings to his writing. I was only halfway finished with my meal, when he was done with his, though he had managed to simultaneously expand on various aspects of his writing. He then picked up the bone and began gnawing...
...plans of studying law. His education didn't last long; he was thrown out of the Institute of Land Management in his first year for poor attendance, says Taramov. At the urging of Basayev's mother, Taramov gave his former schoolmate a job in his computer business. "He was bone idle," says Taramov. "He played computer games all night and then slept until the early afternoon." Nevertheless, Taramov grudgingly kept him on the payroll until late 1991. The only sign of Basayev's political interests, Taramov says, was his fascination with Che Guevara and "anyone else who carried...
...performance by any stretch of the imagination, but one that seems far more impressive upon learning that he played more than three quarters of the game despite a broken bone...