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...early phases. Ball throwing and racquet sports become uncomfortable but you can still manage to play - it's the pain later on, especially at night, that first brings the patients in. Overhead activities like putting up books or stacking dishes on a high shelf give the same hard-to-pinpoint shoulder and upper-arm pain. Cuff patients start avoiding movements that make them exert force at a distance from their bodies; fanning a blanket out over a bed, putting a child in a car seat, opening a window. There are, of course, some devoted athletes, who first complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rotator Cuffs: the Next Big Thing | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...That could mean more time for Israel to fill the gaps in its intelligence, to identify and pinpoint the location of more weaponry, more leaders, perhaps even Nasrallah himself. It could also mean more surprises or more casualties: two soldiers were killed and several others injured in the past two days when militants ambushed IDF troops who crossed into Lebanon to destroy Hizballah outposts. Only one Hizballah fighter was announced killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Hizballah's War Machine | 7/20/2006 | See Source »

...causing the enrollment decline by talking about it, it’s essential that people feel that we know there is a problem and that we’re taking our heads out of the sand.” She added that the marketing survey would help to pinpoint what the School Committee needed to do to draw families back into the schools. Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don?...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cantab School Numbers Down | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...causing the enrollment decline by talking about it, it’s essential that people feel that we know there is a problem and that we’re taking our heads out of the sand.”She added that the marketing survey would help to pinpoint what the School Committee needed to do to draw families back into the schools.Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don?...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Have All the Students Gone? | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

...North America as well, although Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation at the Audubon Society, warns that it is dangerous to make assumptions. "It's great," he says, "when you have a bird like the pied flycatcher, which has been studied for years, and you have enough detail to pinpoint what the problem is." The populations of some seabirds, such as kittiwake, are plunging not because the birds are having trouble timing their food supply but because the fish they feed on have shifted locations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Bye Bye Birdies | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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