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...originally a sprinter, long jumper and high jumper in high school, but I developed shin splints so bad I could barely walk," Johnson explains. "So I got really mad about it one day and I went back to where the shot putters were working out and I said. 'Show me how to throw his damn thing." Then I threw it and everyone's jaws dropped, so I thought I had really screwed up. But the said, 'No, Kim--no one has ever thrown it that far before...
...intriguing document did not touch upon U.S. -Iran relations at all. Titled Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services, the 47-page CIA study, issued in March 1979, offered tidbits about Israeli efforts to blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador...
...list of joggers' ailments runs on and on. First there were the workaday shin splints and stress fractures. Then, somewhat more exotic, the threat of jogger's nipple and jogger's kidney. In winter, male marathoners have been known to run into penile frostbite. And women runners, it now appears, may face a problem of their own, jogger's infertility, which turns out to be easily reversible if they just stay off their feet...
Despite a sore shin and a broken finger, both suffered from being kicked, Harvard's last man and the epitome of its team, netminder Janet Judge turned aside 16 Huskie drives in a truly gutsy effort. The statistics cannot record the effectiveness of Judge's kamikaze pounces on any ball in the area, executed while knowing full well that a sprinting forward might slide into her. Neither can they assess the value of her gravity-defying jumps to punch the ball out of the area and squelch a corner kick...
...Cambridge for his freshman football season. Within two months he had been introduced to the kind of frustrating experience that seems to set Harvard in general, and Harvard football in particular, apart from other universities. He destroyed his knee, and then spent his entire sophomore season hobbled by shin-splints...