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...coaches, parents and medical personnel should expect resistance from athletes and remain on the lookout for those trying to downplay or hide less visible symptoms like headaches. What if a college scout was at the game you sat out because you got your bell rung? "For these kids, their goals in life sometimes revolve around athletics," says Todd Lipe, Waller's coach at J.H. Rose High School, who has promised to be more vigilant in detecting and managing concussions. (The school district did not blame any individual for Waller's death, though the first responder who examined him was relieved...
...report’s conclusions about the risks posed to youth. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who last fall initiated “The Massachusetts Strategic Plan for Cyber Crime,” said in a press release that while she didn’t want to downplay the degree of risk posed by sexual predators, “we must remember that the Internet is an ever-changing and dynamic space...
...It’s a stance that his friends in the Fly readily endorse. “[Final clubs are] another group of people that need representation that he knows,” said Fly member Jay R. Lundy ’09.But Schwartz’s desire to downplay the affiliation is unmistakable. When asked to disclose his acquaintance with a group of students greeting him one morning in the Yard, his slowness to answer foreshadows the inevitable response. The students are members of the Fly, he says.TALK THE (GIRL) TALKSchwartz cannot walk into Lamont Library or into...
...This certainly isn’t to downplay the contribution the five-member senior class made to this season’s success. Midfielders Erin Wylie and Rachael Lau were formidable presences in the midfield, with Wylie always lurking as a scoring threat. Nicole Rhodes anchored a solid back line. An injured Allison Keeley captained from the sideline. Maggie Robinson served as a veteran presence on the three-player goalkeeping corps...
...site (Wiki contributors noted that he deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims to unmask similar transgressions on other Wiki entries - such as when ExxonMobil tried to downplay the environmental impact of the Valdez oil spill and when the FBI deleted aerial images of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp from the camp's entry...