Word: necked
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...make no mistake: his fellow drivers will be taking his return seriously. Schumacher nearly made a comeback with Ferrari over the summer to fill in for the injured Brazilian Felipe Massa but pulled out because of a neck injury he now insists is not a problem. And he revealed to reporters that it was the request from Ferrari that fueled his desire to make a permanent return to the cockpit. "I really didn't feel like it was what I wanted when Ferrari asked me, but when I felt the responsibility, I thought I ought to do it," he says...
...Knox was ordered to serve 26 years in prison; Sollecito received 25. The prosecution contended that Knox persuaded Sollecito and Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who was convicted of the murder in a separate trial, into attempting to sexually assault Kercher before Knox stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen knife. In some ways, the verdict was a shock: while physical evidence tied Guede to the crime, only a bit of biological matter on a knife found at Sollecito's home and a speck of Sollecito's DNA on a bra clasp found six weeks after the crime...
...agen-Dazs," he says. "Serves eight? No, it serves one guy who really likes ice cream." Stratta decided to get off sugar, fatty meats and carbs after his suit wouldn't fit for an awards reception, sending him into a big-and-tall shop. "I was a size-20 neck. I was mortified. I was like Alex the Neck," he says. In 18 months, he went from 270 lb. to 190 lb., which is below his high school weight. His new rules include starting the morning with a protein shake, having only three meals a day and never eating after...
...rodents and newborns, who need it to keep warm right out of the womb, those brown-fat stores shrink and white fat emerges as people age. But now it seems that adults retain more brown fat than previously thought, in deposits in the front and back of the neck, according to a study by Swedish researchers, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April. Two other studies published in the same journal found that lean people tend to have more of these deposits than obese folks and that brown-fat cells are more active in the cold. Could...
...Sunday night, Obama's admiration for Springsteen spread from the upper balcony where he sat with Michelle, radiant in a striking, orchid purple chiffon gown by Peter Soronen and a shock of jewels around her neck. The program, hosted by Caroline Kennedy, presented tributes with video montages, heartfelt remarks and performances by their close friends, who came together onstage to celebrate the honorees' life work...