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...take 11 weeks at the end of the last spring season completely off due to a stress fracture in the upper neck of my femur," Moynihan said. "That just meant that my training this summer was slightly more cautious, and my mileage wasn't as high coming back in to the season. But the injury is completely recovered, and I hope that I will consistently improve throughout the season as my training becomes stronger...
Trapped for six days in the remains of his home in Cinarcik on the Marmara coast, with hardly an inch of space above his face, Ismail was withdrawn and hallucinatory in the early days of his recovery. His mother is in a different hospital with a crushed femur. Ismail seems to sense the unspoken news that his father is dead, as are three sisters. Yet despite his troubles, says Nail Yologlu, one of Ismail's doctors, the boy is healing. "In a ferocious way," says the physician, "he is coming...
...snapping a photograph of a human femur at the second grave, a Bosnian Serb soldier arrested him and charged him with being...
...check-up this November found inoperable tumors in the femur of his good leg, in his ribs, in his lungs and around his heart...
...dried blood, strands of hair, chips of bone. In the journal Nature last week, for example, a team of British researchers recounted how they successfully identified a teenage murder victim from skeletal remains eight years old. First they extracted DNA from bone cells in the dead girl's femur. Then they obtained DNA from blood samples donated by the couple believed to be her parents. Using a PCR machine as their microscope, they went on to magnify and examine the unique genetic markers the dead girl shared with her parents. The evidence helped to convict two men of the crime...