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Concussions are the hot topic, and their residual effects can be hideous. But they are not the only injuries in a game increasingly engorged with unholy violence at all levels. Catastrophic spinal-cord injuries are rare, but in Texas alone there are roughly two a year. That information comes from Eddie Canales, who so unfairly knows more about the subject than anyone else. (See more about football...
...Marauding punks prey on solitary travelers for water, food and clothing. With all industrial and agricultural sectors in shambles, the fear-market system applies: survival of the meanest. Or, in Eli's case, the purest. He's a good man with a Good Book - a rare extant copy of the Bible, whose possession he will defend with his life. (See the top 10 movies...
Sept. 11 was certainly a tragedy, yet more people are killed on our highways each month or two than were killed on that day. One deadly airplane crash is about a day's worth of highway fatalities. Maybe the press should cover highway safety more and rare incidents less. We'd all be safer...
...even though it was already on the form. Some people, it seems, still strongly identify with the term, which used to be a perfectly polite designation. To blindly delete it is to risk incorrectly counting the unknown number of (presumably older) black Americans who identify with the term. (See rare photos at home of Martin Luther King...
It’s not common to have two Ivy League athletes hear their names called during a professional sports draft. It’s especially rare to have two players from the same school join the professional ranks on the same day. But for seniors Andre Akpan and Kwaku Nyamekye, rarity has become reality...