Word: knee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore defender Holly Leitzes played the game with a cast protecting a broken hand. Junior defender Diana Clark was feeling the effect of the flu. Freshman forward Jennifer Duval was shaken up in the first period and couldn't continue in the contest. Alissi was slowed by a knee injury...
Another heartbreaking moment was the failure of former Olympic champion Donna Weinbrecht, the 28-year-old New Jerseyan, who has dominated freestyle mogul skiing since it became a medal sport in Albertville. Weinbrecht had fought her way back from a crippling knee injury. But she finished seventh out of 16 in the competition last week. "I started getting this numb feeling and a real bad vision thing," Weinbrecht told reporters at the finish line. "It's one of those things where you're off. This course, I think I could have shredded it, as we say in freestyle. But when...
...with information. And Johanson doesn't simply present facts. He shows how paleoanthropologists actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what they've found (the harder part). The earliest hint that his team had discovered an especially ancient human ancestor was a single knee joint plucked from the African dirt. It was old -- carefully dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped -- and thus, not entirely apelike -- primate. Lucy turned up nearby a year later...
...second chance to get it right. Assuming he finesses the current crisis, the President should learn the central lesson before other bad actors follow Kim's lead. The U.S. should actively engage the world's other rogue states before it's too late -- no matter the know-nothings whose knee-jerk reaction to creative diplomacy is to cry appeasement. It won't always work. It didn't with Iraq. But peace prospects grow as fewer states are isolated. The time to deal with nuclear blackmail is before those who would threaten trouble acquire the wherewithal to make...
...sophomore, Drury participated in the 1992 Olympics Albertville. Drury appeared in seven games, scoring one goal and having one assist before a knee injury side lined...