Word: shoulders
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...only the first week of the season, but already the list of injured players is growing. Both New York quarterbacks - Eli Manning of the Giants and Chad Pennington of the Jets - may miss games because of shoulder and ankle injuries, respectively. Orlando Pace, the all-pro offensive lineman from the St. Louis Rams, tore the labrum and rotator cuff in his right shoulder. He will miss the season. A steady stream of injuries marred Cincinnati's thrilling 27-20 win over the Baltimore Ravens Monday night: about a dozen Ravens visited the team doctor Tuesday morning for treatment...
...Bill suffered a fracture and disclocation of his spine, in which the C3 and C4 vertebrae in his spinal cord were telescoped when he went in to tackle the Broncos' Domenik Hixon on a kickoff return. Everett's helmeted head made contact with the hard plastic of Hixon's shoulder pad, and he immediately dropped to the ground, his spinal cord shocked by the impact. "He had a compressive load to his spine, and the spine doesn't handle those kinds of loads very well," says Dr. Joseph Kowalski, director of the Spine Center at Erie County Medical Center...
...them. And when they had emptied the bottles, they disposed of them in the trash. How about the water I drank overseas? It had been carried maybe a mile in a clay jug on someone's head or brought up from the canal in a goatskin over someone's shoulder. I think tap water is great. Selling water is surely the biggest scam of the century, and Americans have fallen for it. Marjorie Dye, Pasadena, Calif...
...will be a bit of time before he's able to do it routinely. In a week he'll come back, and wires will be tunneled beneath his scalp, over his shoulder and to his chest, where a small pacemaker will be implanted. Three weeks later--after all possible brain swelling subsides--the power will be switched on, and the precise voltage needed to control his symptoms will be determined. Then it will simply be a matter of returning every few years for a battery change...
...Clark Driftmier, a spokesman for Aurora, said these plans had been in the works for at least two years and that its customers - whom he declined to name - have expressed support. Says Bruce Knight, undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at the USDA: "We'll be looking over their shoulder for the next year, and if they fail to come into full compliance, we'll be taking serious action...