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...some cases, those injuries can lead to crippling arthritis or require extensive surgery to repair. It's no longer unheard of, to name just one example, for a 10-year-old baseball pitcher to need a tendon transplant for an ailing elbow--an operation that used to be restricted almost entirely to major league baseball players. And orthopedic surgeons report they are under increasing pressure to offer ever more experimental surgery for younger athletes...
...total number of pitches per game, depending on the pitcher's age. Pitchers 10 and younger will stop after 75 pitches, and those 11 to 12 years of age are limited to 85 pitches a game. The move, designed to minimize the chances of seriously injuring a pitcher's elbow or shoulder, was based on research conducted by the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) of Birmingham, Ala. Its studies actually indicated that an even lower number of pitches--75 for children 11 to 12 years old--was ideal...
...fertility rate that's dropped to 1.25 children per woman-well below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable-the number of Japanese is set to peak next year and then fall rapidly to 64 million, or half the current population, by 2100. It's not just about elbow room: fewer babies mean fewer young, productive workers to keep Japan's economy afloat, while the proportional increase in the elderly population will severely strain social services. So politicians were as happy as new fathers last week when the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reported that the number...
...audience in mind, or do you care what the celebrities think? I don?t know. It?s so difficult. I?ve thought about this so many times, and there?s no way that I could please everybody. If I?m trying to make a joke, say the whole elbow-in-the-ribs thing about Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, everything can?t be sugar-coated. Sometimes you?ve got to just go with it and make the joke. I can?t really be worried if celebrities get the joke or not. I have been fortunate that all the celebrities that...
...reasons that no one has ever fully explained, skateboarding made a comeback in the '90s, and with it came a return to the construction of skate parks--safer places that usually required helmets and elbow pads. Park "design" tended to be contracted out to sidewalk-concrete pourers, playground-equipment manufacturers and lowball bidders. Most had never set foot on a skateboard, much less done a 360 on one. The results were uninspiring. To an intrepid teenager, a mass-produced ramp is about as exciting as a documentary on the Federal Reserve System. Thrasher, a skating magazine, spotlights the worst parks...