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Royce Clayton, 60, who has worked at the same exact machine for 23 years, goes fishing in his mind every day. That hook he brings down off the crane, to load the underground elbow of the hydrant onto a machine that bores holes into it, might as well be the hook at the end of a line he drops into Guntersville Lake. No fewer than 256 times a day, every day, he drops his line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Vail added a changeup to his repertoire and trained hard in the offseason, picking up the slack in the starting rotation left by the loss of Frank Hogan to graduation and Duffell and classmate James Kalyvas's constant battles with elbow troubles...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Repeats as Ivy Champs, Upsets Tulane at Regionals | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...this point, they've just decided to throw caution to the wind," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Tim McGirk of India's attempt to elbow its way into the nuclear club. "They're saying, 'Enough of this shilly-shallying around -- we've done the test, and we're going to build up our arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Brags About the Bomb | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...flight" reactions into swift defensive tactics meant to subdue the bad guy, summoning in a heartbeat what Levine calls a winning warrior spirit. They escape from choke holds and bear hugs, wrestle away weapons, fight on the ground and fend off multiple attackers. Anything goes, including groin kicks, elbow jabs, head butts, hair pulling, biting and eye gouging. "There are no rules," explains Levine, an L.A. County prosecutor and the highest-ranking American instructor in Krav Maga. "If it's illegal in boxing, we're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choke! Gouge! Smash! | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Urgently needing the last of this fourgame set,Walsh looked to the junior righthander Kalyvas toprovide some muscle on the hill. Kalyvas obliged,working three and two-thirds innings of four-hitball before feeling a pop in his right elbow afterfiring a wild pitch...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Salvages Split For Weekend at Yale | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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