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...striking, especially to us concrete, surgical types. I operated on the knee of a 99-year-old man a few years ago. He had been in good shape until he was hit by a car. The cartilaginous articular surfaces of his knee - the parts that rub together when the knee bends - were pristine. They were as smooth and white and glistening as those of a teenager. Here was a surface that had rubbed against another surface under 150 lbs. of force at least two or three million times a year for nearly a 100 years. And the knee was still...
Woods will skip the Open this year to recover from knee surgery, improving the odds that one of the nearly-greats of golf might win. But even without Woods, Birkdale will provide an intimidating test of emotional fortitude and technical acumen. Colin Montgomerie, who finished second to Woods in the 2005 Open at St. Andrews, says British links courses such as Birkdale magnify the inherent capriciousness of golf, demanding extraordinary patience and equanimity in the face of fickle conditions. In contrast to American courses, the rough in Britain is typically not uniform, leading to inconsistent results for errant shots. What...
...verbatim at each stop, they still manage to come across as conversational. McCain usually speaks for about 30 minutes and then opens the room up to questions. In a typical session, McCain takes a dozen questions from an audience that normally is not screened in advance. Despite a bad knee, he nearly trots across a hall to allow a voter to ask a question. "I'd like you to hang on to the microphone," he tells his citizen interrogators, often inviting them to ask follow...
...Gaza hospital. The wall above his head in the intensive care unit is plastered with the faces of dead Palestinian fighters that supporters believe have gone on to paradise. Yusef was nearly one of them, but he survived - minus a leg that was amputated below his knee. Barely conscious, he cracked a joke with his comrades from the Salaheddin Brigades jostling around his bed. "It looks like my leg has reached paradise before I did," Yusef said with a weak laugh...
...begins to have fun, spinning stories like an old sailor on a bar stool, and speaking with clarity about the issues that motivate him most. Though many of his words are memorized, repeated verbatim at each stop, they still manage to come across as conversational. Despite a bad knee, he will almost trot across a hall to hand a voter the microphone, and always give even the most combative questioners a chance to ask a follow-up question...