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...kids 9 to 12 years old, elbow problems in kids 10 to 12 and knee injuries in kids 12 to 14. Gender also seems to play a role. Girls, for reasons that are not clear, are more likely than boys to tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)--a tough ribbon of tissue that holds the knee together. "Twenty years ago, it was rare for someone under age 15 to have ACL surgery," says Dr. Daniel Green, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. "Now it's commonplace...
...Beyer, a shy 18-year-old swimmer from Tucson, Ariz., who had arrived just 10 weeks earlier, the weight of history was overwhelming. After 9/11, the cadets were deluged with honors--praise, medallions and miles of thanks from yellow-ribbon America--that most didn't think they had earned, at least not yet. "People really loved to tell us that we're great Americans," she recalls, "but I really didn't think we were all that great. We're just college kids." Strangers started coming up to her on the street when she was in uniform, thanking her for what...
...Ribbon. During her morning prayers in 1982, Denver Grandmother Justine Merritt conceived the idea of a band of people encircling the Pentagon with a ribbon of peace. She began to ask those on her Christmas-card list to fashion cloth banners depicting things they could not bear to lose. The project attracted a national volunteer network, which produced 25,000 different banners, many with pictures of children or pets or sunsets. Tied together, the banners formed a ribbon that stretched 15 miles--long enough not only to encircle the Pentagon but also to cross the Potomac and wind around...
More than 15,000 demonstrators turned out as the ribbon was finally tied around the Lincoln Memorial. Nearly overwhelmed by the occasion, Merritt told the crowd, "I'm not going to cry. I'm just going to pray for peace." Afterward, sections of the ribbon were flown to Los Angeles and unfurled as demonstrators conducted a peace vigil along a 15-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard...
...poured. To allay environmental concerns, engineers built walkways across parts of the canals for the use of cattle and mule deer, and aqueduct sides were deliberately made rough to lend footing for smaller animals that might climb down for a drink. Human visitors are not welcome, but the outstretched ribbon of water has already inspired one desert sportsman to use the canal as a water...