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...still many regions throughout the country - particularly in the Midwest - that still have not gotten the message. Now through the Climate Project - an initiative to spread awareness and challenge citizens and governments to take action against the effects of global warming - Gore has trained nearly 1,000 of his foot soldiers to give the same presentation that he delivers in the movie. His disciples, who are required to give at least 10 talks a year, are not just scientists but volunteers from all walks of life including teachers, housewives and even celebrities like Cameron Diaz...
...Those with missing or withered legs will calibrate their prostheses in a "gait lab," a rotating platform that looks like the hull of a rowboat surrounded by video images of a lake. Upper-extremity patients will learn how to scale a 30-foot climbing wall with prosthetic or injured arms...
...Surgery was successful. But while he survived the first scare, an eight-month roller coaster followed. In July, Barbaro developed severe laminitis, an equine foot disease in which the connection between the bone and hoof separates, causing excruciating pain. Dean Richardson, Barbaro's surgeon, called the colt's prognosis "poor." But his left hind hoof, uninjured in the Preakness, continued to re-grow after surgery removed 80% of it. In November, a cast on Barbaro's shattered right hind leg was removed. "In my mind's eye, he can leave in the not so distant future," Richardson declared...
...never would. The laminitis flared back up, and a deep abscess developed in his right hind foot. On Saturday, surgery was performed to place two steel pins in a bone to help ease the weight bearing on his ailing foot. "We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him, then it would be time," co-owner Roy Jackson said on Monday...
...inability to stay healthy or display the inside dominance his physical size and skill-set demanded. Continued difficulty adding weight has likely led to some of Cusworth’s injury history—he completely missed his sophomore campaign with a stress fracture in his foot and sat out parts of the last two seasons due to various setbacks, including a broken hand. And his weight trouble was also a factor in his inability to fully capitalize upon height and interior presence to dominate smaller Ivy League big men in the paint.Cusworth worked all of last summer on bulking...