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Changes also had to take place in the femur, or thighbone. For example, the femoral neck--the bent portion at the top of the bone--is broader in humans than it is in apes, which improves balance. The human knee is specialized for walking upright too: to compensate for the thighbone's being at an angle, there's a lump, or groove, at the end of the femur that prevents the patella from sliding off the joint. "A chimp doesn't have this groove because there is no angulation between the hip and the knee," Lovejoy says. "This change says...
...Neck X-rays, negative. Head X-rays, negative. Caroline is blubbering throughout, but a trouper. She's coherent, wiggling her toes upon command (everyone commands it: parents, doctors, nurses). She says, many times, "I want to go home." We try to reassure her, but what...
...Gail and Scott's two. There's a lot of talk about all the recent trips to the hospital by everyone here, and about Mom's hip, but the acute focus is on Caroline. She's tired but happy, still with no appetite and still with an achy neck from either the ball or the brace...
...YOUR KICKS Hey, nobody ever lost money selling kids new ways to break their neck--hence the K2 Evolution Four kickboard ($199), this summer's answer to the Razor Scooter. The kickboard is an unholy combination of skateboard and scooter geared toward stunts. Safety-minded kids may prefer simply to play in traffic...
...soft-core sex movies, porn doesn't want to give her up: sex, or at least the tug of it in a character, defines nearly all of the roles she has played. She wants to do more acting?real acting, not just flaunting her face in ads, or her neck-snapping body in thinly disguised erotic films. But she has been trapped by her success?and by her adviser. Manfred Wong, the Hong Kong Svengali who discovered her and remains her manager, has seemingly never seen a script too poor or a commercial too cheesy to reject. Except, that...