Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dive is so great that she seeks help for it from a sports psychologist who is on call to the team. Michele Mitchell, 22, missed her hand grab (divers clasp their hands as they enter the water, then let go) while practicing 10-meter dives last winter. Her right shoulder "jerked around somewhere behind me," and eventually required surgery. She was out of action for 4½ months...
...Alto, Calif., and had as competitors teams from such unlikely lands as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Cameroon. Both finalists survived tense overtime tests to reach the championship contest: France beat Yugoslavia 4-2, while Brazil nipped Italy 2-1. Some of the action was almost tough enough to warrant shoulder pads and helmets; in the semifinal, France's Didier Senac fractured his skull in an on-field collision, and two Yugoslavs were ejected for excessive roughness...
...technique, popularized in the U.S. in the 1970s after a Japanese surgeon perfected the arthroscope, is increasingly being used for repairs to the shoulder and elbow. But the fact that arthroscopy now accounts for 90% of all knee surgery in the U.S. is proof of its major application. Dr. James Nicholas, director of the Lenox Hill Institute of Sports Medicine in New York, calls the knee the body's most vulnerable joint, "the most complicated and the least suited to perform what it is asked to do." Ligaments joining the femur and tibia wrap around the knee to keep...
...setting is the fictitious country Cuyama, "a tract of land perched uneasily on the sloping shoulder of South America, a degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and runs a bookstore; the Cuyamese citizens, whose culture he hopes to elevate, stay away in droves. Aubrey's wife Dina broods on her mixed Hindustani and Portuguese origins and roundly hates her native grounds: "Nothing worthwhile had ever been created on this sterile patch of earth perched on the edge...
...Carey, 21, the University of Texas junior, academic all-American, computer whiz and sore loser. "Rick not only hates to lose, he hates to go slow," says Coach John Collins of the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, N. Y. "It's like he has a devil over his shoulder who drives him to go fast." Carey seems to have put behind him his notorious goggle-throwing days. But then, he has not had much occasion for temper lately. He is the world-record holder in both the 100-and 200-meter backstroke, but Carey does not enjoy the pressure...