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...swine flu. There hasn't been a flu pandemic for more than a generation, and there hasn't been a truly virulent pandemic since long before the arrival of mass air transit. We're in terra incognito here. Panic would be counterproductive - especially if it results in knee-jerk reactions like closing international borders, which would only complicate the public-health response. But neither should we downplay our very real vulnerabilities. As Napolitano put it: "This will be a marathon, not a sprint." Be prepared...
When Sophie, a financial analyst in Paris, learned that her bank would lay off 50 employees by this summer, she didn't react by mailing out résumés or trying to ingratiate herself with her managers - she scheduled arthroscopic knee surgery. "I'm doing it now because I won't be able to if I wait and lose my job," says the 27-year-old, who, fearing questions from her employer, spoke with TIME on condition of anonymity. By going under the knife ahead of her potential job loss, Sophie can use the firm's supplementary health...
...Conner put us in a place to get a lot of ground balls,” Walsh said. “He’s throwing the ball from the top of the patella to the bottom of the patella—it’s just knee-high, knee-high, knee-high.”With the game on the line, Dartmouth pinch-hit its star Santomauro, forcing Walsh to make the pitching change.Santomauro—who was named to the all-Ivy first team in both his freshman and sophomore years—entered the series hitting...
...first jobs was as a caddy. Recruited to play football at the University of Oregon, he transferred out after his first year and eventually ended up at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, Madden suffered a career-ending knee injury during training camp...
...perform an exercise called "the holidays." "I had to stand up in the sluttiest way possible and strut over to every male in the room," including the counselors, Maisa says. She was instructed to sit on the floor before each man, place her left foot on his right knee and say, "This foot is Christmas." She then placed her right foot on his left knee and said, "This foot is New Year's. Do you want to meet me between the holidays...