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...psychological damage to Liberia's population of 2 million cannot be fathomed. What does it do to people to walk along Monrovia's sandy beaches and have to step around skulls and rib cages that are only half submerged in the sand? Taking stock of the toll, a Monrovia cleric said simply, "I weep for this country." If only tears could start the healing...
...owners can save millions of dollars--take the pitcher off the mound and put up a tee. 'Cause what they're playing is tee ball. They pitch around him. If I was going to pitch around him, I would have saved four and just put one in his rib cage. You want to go to first? We'll do it easy...
...examination of the joints showed that Kennewick Man had arthritis in the right elbow, both knees and several vertebrae but that it wasn't severe enough to be crippling. He had suffered plenty of trauma as well. "One rib was fractured and healed," says Owsley, "and there is a depression fracture on his forehead and a similar indentation on the left side of the head." None of those fractures were fatal, though, and neither was the spear jab. "The injury looks healed," says Owsley. "It wasn't a weeping abscess." Previous estimates had Kennewick...
...awarded Bronze Stars. He was alive, with just one small regret. "They burned my helmet and Kevlar vest." O.K., two regrets. "I wanted a cool scar, like this," says Braddock, slashing his hand across his eye. He wears the tiniest of smiles as he dives into another pork rib...
...Huntington Ravine near the HMC-operated cabin. The climber lost his footing due to a gust of wind and fell about 125 meters down the snow slope, according to Justin Preisendorfer, a snow ranger at the White Mountain National Forest. The climber suffered fractures to his arm and rib damage resulting from the fall, HMC President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 wrote in an e-mail. After the accident, one of the injured climber’s partners went down to the HMC-operated cabin and told its caretaker, Jon Husson...