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Then to VanDerveer's horror, Folkl followed suit. An MRI test taken yesterday confirmed that she had torn not only her ACL, but also suffered bone bruises and structural damage to her meniscus...
...course brought about 20 female undergraduates out from the depths of Quincy to bone up on our awareness and self-defense. Over the 12 hours we spent together, I listened as we laughed our way through demonstrations that were teaching us how to throw off attempted rapists--because, really, what else can you do with a subject all too real and close? I watched as women whom you couldn't picture harming a kitten giggled nervously, fidgeted in their dress shoes, talked themselves down--and then proceeded to kick ass again and again, loving it all the while. And Abby...
...illegal in the U.S. to buy or sell human organs, there may still be reason for concern. Take, for example, a new "Life for a Life" bill introduced last month in the Missouri state legislature. It would allow prisoners on death row to exchange a kidney or bone-marrow transplant for a sentence of life without parole. Although doctors have attacked the bill on moral grounds, arguing that a choice between death or transplantation is never free, defense attorneys have called it "fascinating." Strictly speaking, of course, the prisoners wouldn't be selling their organs. But they would be buying...
...BONE UP The drug Fosamax, already shown to restore bone loss in elderly women, can also prevent loss in those just beginning menopause. Researchers say it's nearly as effective as estrogen-replacement therapy...
...vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas Island. Using a powerful oil drill, he and his colleagues repeatedly bored into ancient reef beds buried beneath the sea floor, pulling up chunks of coral as white as sun-bleached bone...