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...helmet manufacturers have added aid bladders to cushion the head as well as support to the cheek, jaw and facemask areas. But nothing has yet been developed that can protect the spine, especially during a spear tackle. "The newer helmets are not going to significantly change the stress the neck sees as a result of a top-of-the-head blow," Andrew Tucker, team doctor for the Baltimore Ravens, says. "Right now, the prevention of these types of injuries lies in proper tackling technique. That's much more important than anything we can do on the equipment side...
...Crimson played neck-and-neck with the Eagles for most of the game before relinquishing its control of the game late. Up through the 74th minute, when the Eagles tallied the eventual game-winner, Harvard challenged the ranked Boston College squad, pushing its opponents to the brink...
...debut 2003 novel Amok, Polish author Krystian Bala describes the torture and murder of a young woman whose hands are bound behind her back with a cord that is then looped to form a noose around her neck. According to a judge's ruling this week in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, Bala was drawing not on his imagination for that scene, but on his own experience...
...author, 34, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for having a role in the murder of a Polish businessman whose body was discovered in the river Oder with a cord binding his hands behind his back that was also looped into a noose around his neck. "The evidence gathered gives sufficient basis to say that Krystian Bala committed the crime of leading the killing," the judge, Lidia Hojenska, told a packed courtroom. She added: "There are certain shared characteristics between the book's narrator and the author...
...remove the stigma attached to Mae West-Jean Harlow-style hair coloring with the reassuring answer: "Hair color so natural, only her hairdresser knows for sure." And American women never looked back. As Nora Ephron - at 66, a proud artificial brunet - puts it in I Feel Bad About My Neck: "There's a reason why 40, 50 and 60 don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair...