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...individual thing, rather than them being like a school of fish," he philosophizes. Though of course, he says, it goes without saying that "they're not looking for helmet head...
...sniper's bullet isn't something that I have on my mind when I attend lectures. Lecture halls aren't trenches and the professor isn't our platoon commander leading us in a campaign against subject material. I have yet to hear a Gov professor throw on a helmet and flak jacket screaming: "Watch it boys, they've lobbed over a copy of Locke's Two Treatises of Government! Get down! Aaaaargh...
Sports doctors and equipment engineers have struggled over the years to make football safer. Voigt Hodgson, a Wayne State University bioengineer, says helmet improvements have led to an 85% decrease in serious brain injury among all football players since 1958. Research by Dr. Joseph Torg, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Sports Medicine Center, led to rule changes in 1976 that banned "spearing," in which a player uses his helmet as a battering ram to tackle an opponent. Torg had shown that spearing was a leading cause of neck injuries (indeed, experts are debating whether Byrd accidentally speared...
Nevertheless, players are still using helmets as a weapon. Houston Oiler quarterback Warren Moon was speared by a tackler last month and remains sidelined. In a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article last week, he charged that "creating turnovers has become so important that players today are being coached to strike with the helmet first" in the hope of jarring the ball loose...
...Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...