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After a quick exchange of baskets, UNH sharpshooter Robin Dixon brought the Wildcats to within one at 71-70 with a 15-ft. swish, and Carrabino took an elbow to that eye that put him on the bench for a minute and a half...
Seen at the Boathouse Bar on Thursday night this week was hockey great, BOBBY ORR, who was promoting Moosehead Beer. "He was really personable," said one Kirkland House elbow-bender who was among the numerous K-House students trying to win Moosehead plaques and shirts there that night...
...hand, known in NASAese as an "end effector." Eventually, the spider-web-like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long arm through various manipulations of its "shoulder," "elbow" and "wrist" joints. If the machinery jams when the arm is extended, one of the spacemen will have to climb into a pressure suit and go outside to reel the limb in. If that fails, the arm will have to be jettisoned in space. For unless the shuttle's big, heat-shielded cargo...
...instruments and experts agree that there are often painful pitfalls on the rigorous road to glowing health. Pick up a racket, and you run the risk of a sprained ankle, twisted knee or tennis elbow. Condition your heart by pumping over hill and dale on a racing bike with low-slung handle bars, and you can come up with chronic low back pain. Play softball and be prepared for torn knee ligaments and broken fingers...
Though many different sports put a strain on the same parts of the body and result in the same injuries, some produce their own peculiar ills. Golfers get twinges of golfer's elbow. Swimmer's shoulder may catch up with anybody who favors the butterfly stroke. There is even something known as "dunk laceration syndrome" that strikes highflyers who slam the ball through the basket, hitting their hands against the hoop...