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...created: the U.S. men's 4 X 100-meter relay team. The Yanks have never been beaten in an Olympics and usually aren't seriously challenged. Tonight the Australians started with a world record time for the first 100 meters and kept on going through to Thorpe's anchor leg. The U.S. team broke the world record, but the Australians broke them: Thorpe touched the wall .19 seconds in front of Gary Hall Jr. and Australians let loose a national yell of joy they've been holding in for 44 years, since the last time the Olympics were held here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming's First Day Went Swimmingly | 9/16/2000 | See Source »

...time of the team's season opener against No. 11 Texas A&M two weeks ago, injuries had already ravaged nearly half of the Crimson's talented sophomore class. Forwards Beth Totman and Caitlin Butler, as well as goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther, were all sidelined with various types of leg problems...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Injuries Hit No. 16 W. Soccer Early | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

SOME NERVE New hope for sufferers of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a confounding neurological disorder that affects 6 million Americans. RSD starts with a minor injury to an arm or leg--say, a twisted ankle or a bruise--but quickly blossoms into a strange syndrome in which the sympathetic nerves (the ones responsible for temperature control, sweating and blood flow) go so out of whack that blowing air across the skin is enough to trigger burning pain. The injured extremity and surrounding tissue can become discolored and, eventually, immobile. Now researchers report two experimental treatments. In one, doctors restore motor activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Sep. 11, 2000 | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Volusia County, where Danielle, a 19-year-old college student, survived last month's attack with 12 stitches in her thigh, sharks have attacked eight swimmers and surfers. A Kentucky teenager was bitten on the leg and hand on the same day Danielle was. The two met in the emergency room. "I was thinking, Man, this is normal?" says Danielle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Shallow Waters Danger Runs Deep | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

Even though her leg is healing, Danielle says, the 4-ft. shark that bit her still stalks the murky depths of her sleep. On the coast, a shark washed ashore recently, but a necropsy didn't find any human bones inside. As the line from a similar scene in Jaws goes, "There's still one helluva shark out there, Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Shallow Waters Danger Runs Deep | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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