Word: kneecap
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...joining the femur and tibia wrap around the knee to keep the bones together; the only cushion between these bones is two thin bands of cartilaginous tissue called menisci. Unlike the shoulder and hip joints, which are buried under layers of muscle, the knee is protected only by the kneecap and a thin layer of tissue. The knee bears great weights, helps propel and stop the body and acts as a shock absorber-and that is just normal wear. Many sports put added strain on the joint. The worst: football, basketball, skiing, soccer, weight lifting and wrestling. And a runner...
...idea struck a responsive chord among TIME'S editors in New York City, particularly Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, our Medicine writer. She had been interested in the subject ever since 1978, when she experienced the anguish of surgery for a fractured kneecap. The result is this week's cover story, which was written by Wallis and contributed to by Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter...
What's that rustling in the bushes? Who are those tiny green figures scurrying through the twilight? Why did they bite that nice old lady in the kneecap? When did they start multiplying like rabid rabbits? Where will it all end? In movie theaters throughout North America, where these monster-pranksters have every intention of overrunning the opposition and leaving the Hollywood army of would-be summer smashes dazed in their wake. Ugh! Good Lord! Eek! Gasp! Aaarrrgh!. Gremlins is coming...
...McKay avoids the cliches with which so much of television sports is infested, concentrating on small events in time, not the record-setting times in events. His own favorite moments tend to center on individuals like the Japanese gymnast at Mexico City in 1968 who competed with a broken kneecap. "Television has made it possible for the audience to identify with individual athletes," he explains. Every four years, McKay searches for something rarely seen nowadays, something that, ironically, has been lost in part through the very medium in which he works. He looks for people who strive for perfection...
...Huskies' minds Monday night than a Beanpot championship. "They won it for them," said Northeastern Coach Fern Flaman referring to his wife and son. In the past three weeks. Flaman's son has been diagnosed as having a serious and the coach's wife recently broke her kneecap in a fall...