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...minus some scars, some scary days in the hospital and a good bit of pain. Yet had she opted for closed treatment, any pain or stiffness at all would invariably bring up that doubt: "wouldn't I have done better with the surgery? Everybody's doing it." The bottom line is that we can rely on statistics (sometimes) but in any individual case no one can ever knows how a given treatment will work, or how a different one would have. People must put their practical trust in something: progress or "science," friends, institutions, the government, sometimes maybe even their...
Casey and Lin both shot 10-of-11 from the free-throw line, while all other Crimson players were perfect in their attempts...
Whereas Cornell inflicted the most damage from the three-point line, Harvard’s offensive front emphasized getting to the free-throw line and making consistent shots...
...Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu issued a written statement, saying, "The United States' behavior constitutes a serious interference in China's internal affairs and seriously hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and seriously harms Sino-U.S. relations." The comments are in line with what Chinese diplomats have said after the Dalai Lama met U.S. leaders in the past, during warmer times between the two nations. Part of Beijing's restraint this week may be due to the fact that the meeting came during the Chinese New Year, the country's biggest holiday, when most officials...
...casualty in raising the technical precision of the sport is the spontaneity that makes sports exciting. Athletes at this level live on the edge of control and chaos, and it's the collective wow of moments when they butt themselves up against that line that take our breath away and keep bringing us back to watch. "It's important for any sport to continue to raise the bar and move forward," Paul Wylie, a 1992 silver medalist, told me after the men's short programs. "I have to admit, as a performer who did two triple Axels in my program...