Word: braced
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...study that tracked more than 1,200 doctors for nearly 40 years found that sustaining a knee injury early in life can lead to a whopping fivefold increase in the risk of developing arthritis by age 65. Any way to avoid that fate? The researchers suggest using a knee brace--and totally giving up the injurious activity. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
Last week the Louisville team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine just how well Scott, a paramedic, is doing. Within three months of the surgery, he went public with his new hand, gripping a baseball with the aid of a brace and flinging a first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies game. Within eight months, he could distinguish between hot and cold, a sure sign that the nerves were regenerating. Today, thanks to hours of grueling physical therapy, he is capable of more challenging tasks like driving a car, tying shoelaces and, most important, lifting his kids. Though such...
...idea that interest rates would be stuck at 6.5 percent for the duration. The news had been discounted, and excitement is low - August has been a pretty solid month for all the indexes, and the week before Labor Day is generally a slow one as investors brace for September...
...fashion or tool the proper steel mold to shape the pipe. That's when McCollum came up with a startlingly simple--and cheap--idea. Instead of a metal mold, why not fashion two pieces of composite in the shape of the product, inject the resin into the cell and brace the flimsy mold with pressurized water...
...whether the voice belongs to the elected official himself, as in Corzine's case, or to his contributors? In any case, now that Corzine, who made his $400 million in an instant when Goldman Sachs went public, has apparently solved the problem of why rich men don't win, brace yourself: There are an awful lot of dot-com millionaires out there looking for a new challenge...