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Klimkiewicz’s hamstring problems, his doctors told him, were linked to residual muscle imbalances in his knees. He had rushed his recovery schedule by a month, and the patella tendon used to replace his ACL had not yet loosened up or strengthened enough to function as an effective proxy. His quadriceps and hamstrings began “pulling apart” on each other in turn...
...more I got to know the HRSFen, the more they seemed like a co-ed frat. HRSFA’s main purpose is its social function. The group does organize large, public events (the annual VeriCon, a science-fiction conference) and it does publish (a semiannual literary magazine focused on science fiction and fantasy), but members usually spend time together just for the sake of spending time together...
...searing national issue in 2002. At the Pope's directives, the U.S. bishops' conference proposed a variety of get-tough measures, which were subsequently watered down in Rome. Observers wondered whether that was the most egregious example of papal preference for church authority over lay concerns or simply a function of his growing inability to stand up to his own bureaucracy. Similarly, some thought a younger John Paul would have more forcefully addressed the Sept. 11 attacks and his opposition to the allied invasion of Iraq. A few wished aloud that he would set an example for an age when...
...Commission, will oversee the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, some of which will continue to report to their traditional bureaucracies as well . The Justice Dept., for example, will continue to work closely with the FBI on its law enforcement functions, while DIA will continue to function in close coordination with the Pentagon...
...courage in not only accepting death but also bringing about your own. Those who disagree about the virtue of suicide, he wrote, "have never dealt with people who HAVE faced the kind of pain that makes you [physically] sick at times, makes you so depressed you can't function, makes you so sad and overwhelmed with grief that eating a bullet or sticking your head in a noose [seems] welcoming." Months later, he wrote about slicing his wrist with a box cutter, "painting the floor of my bedroom with blood I shouldn't have spilt. After sitting there for what...