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Ehrlich will be forced to sit out next week’s game...
...Change youth football. Chris Nowinski is a former Harvard defensive tackle whose pro-wrestling career - he didn't want to sit in a cubicle - was derailed by concussions. He has since emerged as one of the country's most prominent advocates for football reform and has written a book, Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. To illustrate his points, he pulls up a YouTube clip titled "Big Football Hit - Helmet to Helmet." In a drill supervised by the coaches, two 8-year-olds charge toward each other, heads down, as a woman yells, "Go! Go!" The tiny helmets collide...
...during a 2006 game. Lystedt collapsed after the game. His brain hemorrhaged, he went into a monthlong coma, and he remains paralyzed on one side of his body. The law requires that all youth athletes suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury during a practice or game must sit out and may not return to play unless cleared by a licensed medical provider trained in concussion management. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Florida are among the states considering similar legislation. "I believe we're reaching a tipping point," says Richard Adler, a Seattle lawyer...
America is facing a trillion dollar deficit. Our tax dollars have bailed out endless corporations who have flagrantly misused it. We saved the banks, yet they deny us fair lending and take our homes. We sit by and watch million dollar bonuses given away to the very executives that put our economy in peril. We hear about scandals involving AIG, the New York Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America—there are too many to list. We listen helplessly to members of congressional oversight panels who condemn them with their voices but continue...
...best thing we can do is increase security and intelligence--but in a way that makes sense. Having to sit for part of a flight will simply mean an adjustment in plans for a terrorist. And if we focus too much on Afghanistan, where our intelligence agencies say there are only 100 or so al-Qaeda operatives, we run the risk of taking our eyes off the prize and playing into the hands of the forces we are trying to defeat...