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...first sign is often a twinge in your knee or your back or some stiffness at the base of your thumb. Or maybe you're getting out of the car and a sharp pain shoots down your leg from your hip to your calf. "Nothing serious," you think. "I must have just strained something. I'm too young to have arthritis...
...here comes the interesting part," says Dr. Klaus Kuettner, professor of biochemistry at Rush--Presbyterian--St. Luke's. "The ankle joint responds better than the knee joint to osteogenic proteins." Is that why the ankle rarely gets osteoarthritis? "We don't know," says Kuettner, "but it's a hint in that direction...
...with critical acclaim, but has angered many by portraying some firefighters in an uncomplimentary light. Among other criticisms, Langewiesche alleges that some firefighters engaged in looting while the first of the Twin Towers burned. The outraged reaction of firefighters and others, although understandable, seems to be primarily a knee-jerk attempt to maintain the status of firefighters as transcendent heroes, even in the face of evidence that indicates some of them to be less than perfect...
McDavitt had to become more versatile in the offseason as well. She spent her entire sophomore year rehabbing from knee cartilage damage and never could become the same player, physically, as in freshman year. But she nevertheless benefited from watching a season’s worth of games from the sidelines and became a smarter player. McDavitt doubled her goal-scoring total from two years ago, to the surprise of herself and her teammates...
...final game of his career and the last episode in a heart-wrenching soap opera, captain Neil Rose was benched one last time in favor of sophomore Ryan Fitzpatrick. Rose saw his Harvard career end rather modestly, taking the field only once after halftime—to take a knee on the game’s final play...