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Junior guard Brady Merchant sat out the game with a strained medial collateral ligament. Freshman David Giovacchini also was also sidelined due to a broken right leg. He is expected to at least miss the Crimson’s first few games...
Take junior soccer forward Caitlin Butler, for instance. After a solid freshman year, in which she appeared in 13 games for the Crimson, Butler tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee during practice the day before the last season’s opening game. She missed the remainder of that season due to the injury, but has returned to contribute to the Crimson squad this year...
...willing to try anything for food," says Rocky Strong, a shark biologist associated with the Jean-Michel Cousteau Institute. Not just fish, turtles and sea mammals but also dogs, boots, beer bottles and unopened cans of beans. Its teeth are serrated, with a notch to catch and cut through ligament or shell tissue...
...storytelling. French works like a caricaturist, exaggerating the grotesqueries, and simplifying everything else. Her people are moon-faced, big-eyed creatures, often children, innocent until introduced to a world of cruelty or decay. She uses a variety of drawing techniques, from sharp pen lines that outline every dangling ligament, to softly shaded graphite works which give each popping vein a three-dimensional quality...
...knee injury--damage to the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL. As increasing numbers of young women lace up their cleats and head out onto the field, more are showing up in infirmaries and operating rooms with a partly torn or completely ruptured ACL. This is a lot more serious than an ankle sprain or a jammed finger. The ACL is the knee's most important stabilizer and if severely injured can require surgical repair and cause permanent, perhaps career-ending damage...