Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes the golf swing so hard on the back? University of Southern California orthopedic surgeon Robert G. Watkins says it's the repetitive extremes in rotation and compression that go with the sport. "Spine injuries lead the list of injuries on both the senior and regular PGA tours," says Watkins, spine consultant to the Professional Golfers' Association Tour and editor of The Spine in Sports (Mosby, 1996). "It's true for amateurs...
...newtons (a measure of gravitational force). That's the equivalent of eight times an individual's standing body weight. These back-crunching levels are "close to the known failure loads associated with lumbar intervertebral joints," concludes Thomas P. Headman, a biomechanical engineer at the University of Southern California...
...African-American science majors eating lunch in a University of California Irvine dining hall are on the brink of brilliant careers. Aisha Kennedy, a chemistry major, has done ozone research with a Nobel-prizewinning professor. John Williams, a biology major, is off to Kenya this summer for a project on malaria transmission. And Brian McCurtis, a computer-science major with a summer job at Novell, is seeing years of hard work pay off. "I'd say my biggest problem is sifting through the job offers," he says. "There's been no job hunting...
...looks so good, why are some people saying that what is going on at U.C. Irvine is a disaster for minority education? The problem is, the rising minority enrollment at Irvine is largely a result of California's two-year-old ban on affirmative action at public colleges. As preferences were removed that had helped minorities qualify for the top U.C. campuses, notably Berkeley and UCLA, students who once would have gone there were redistributed down to such less selective campuses as Irvine. In California it is known as cascading, because minorities are sliding down from high-ranked schools...
...cream at Baskin Robbins is thinner than the homemade variety at some of the other stores. Bu the great advantage of Basking Robbins is its predictability. From Southern California to Northern Maine, you know what you're going to get from the 31 flavors. And you know your favorite flavors always going to be there waiting...