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Sandberg was found just two to three feet below the surface of the snow, after a two-hour search. He died from massive head and neck injuries, a medical examiner’s report showed...

Author: By Yingzhen Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Employee Dies in Avalanche | 12/3/2002 | See Source »

...quality of life in Japan is eroding and low domestic productivity is a primary reason why," says Haruo Shimada, a professor of economics at Tokyo's Keio University and a special advisor to the Cabinet Office. Japan's domestic economy has become the millstone around the nation's neck, slowly pulling it to the bottom of the pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Nowhere Fast | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...look a leopard in the eye is to be rendered mute with primitive, mind-numbing terror. Vilas Dattu Jadhav says his daughter's killer crept across a stubble field to the front of his one-room shack, leapt through the door, lifted Deepali off the floor by her neck and bounded into the sugarcane fields before he noticed. He was standing five meters away. The four-year-old never made a sound. Vilas says the silence is contagious. "My six-year-old, Rahul, he never leaves the house now. The only time he speaks is when he screams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Scream | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...gone to read on me." This knowledge also gave writers a vocabulary that opened up new imaginative worlds. Donne describes the soul of a young girl, as it races through the stars and toward heaven, as "the pith, which, lest our bodies slack, / Strings fast the little bones of neck, and back; / So by the soul doth death string heaven and earth." Someone who hadn't seen a body dissected might have been able to draw the parallel, but probably not with the razor-sharp language that makes Donne one of the greats. Von Hagens, who performed his autopsy under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anatomy of Our Selves | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

...methodical splashing of the water aerobic classes is surprisingly relaxing white noise that enriches the experience. Students can choose from masseurs and masseuses, who employ a variety of relaxation techniques during any given session. UHS therapists target all the major points of tension, including upper and lower back, shoulders, neck and even hands, always providing a major upgrade from the tepid massages of roommates and lovers from days past...

Author: By Emily S. High, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Knot Your Typical UHS Experience | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

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