Word: footings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being shut down, the elevator continues to run, half alive. The claw-hammer handle that the elevator operators once used has been replaced by gleaming new push buttons, but typically for China, the elevator operator has not been replaced. She still sits there, complete with a little one-foot-square desk and a bottle of green tea, carrying the nation's top Marxists up and down for eight hours a day. The pope has his office on the 13th floor. The ride takes several minutes...
First it was the Jets. Wayne Chrebet, a wide receiver, broke his foot while making a cut upfield during an exhibition game. Then Vinny Testaverde, their quarterback, popped his Achilles tendon pushing off to recover a fumble. Last week the Atlanta Falcons star running back, Jamal Anderson, tore a knee ligament trying to outmaneuver linemen. In each case the only contact the players had was with the artificial turf. Both teams had been playoff hopefuls, the Falcons eyeing a return to the Super Bowl. Now it is doubtful these teams can put together a winning season. At least nine other...
More than a few players would like to slam Savoca to the carpet just to make a point. Nearly everyone who plays on artificial turf--think sandpaper laid over concrete--hates it. Players say ligaments pop because the surface doesn't "give" once a foot is planted. Skin shreds from its abrasiveness; heads hurt from its hardness. Clark Gaines, regional representative of the National Football League's Players Association, says artificial turf causes up to three times as many noncontact injuries as grass. "These injuries simply don't happen on a natural surface," he says. "Players have their own terminology...
...addition, pigs salvage a TV set from the farmhouse to keep the animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize how image control is essential to tyrants. When the hog Napoleon (voiced by Patrick Stewart) becomes absolute dictator, his apotheosis is celebrated by a martial chorus of foot-stomping ducks in a perfect and hilarious imitation of a Stalinist propaganda musical...
Your article on the potential for genetically manipulating humans has left me wondering if scientists have been doing it for years. I am sure Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the product of splicing the tail gene of a humpback whale onto the foot gene of a human. PETER CHARTER Durban, South Africa...