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Both Reardon and Fiering also cited the importance of remembering last year's incident, where Margaret M. Cimino suffered a fractured skull and severe neurological damage when the goalposts fell on her during the post-game celebration at the Yale Bowl...
Many of the new breaking products are intended to make the acrobatics easier on the knees and skull. Most break dancers do their gyrations on cardboard retrieved from supermarket dumpsters or on sheets of linoleum. Early in September, though, a California toy company called Koki rolled out a 4½-ft.-sq. polyvinyl dance mat designed especially for breaking. Price: $18. The company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will...
...mean that he has suffered brain damage as a result of blows. A punch thrown by a heavyweight can land with a force exceeding 1,000 Ibs., and it can snap the head back or twist it violently, causing the jelly-like brain to be slammed against the rigid skull like a yolk inside a raw egg. When this happens, nerve cells and blood vessels may be twisted, ruptured or stretched. The brain, like any other damaged tissue, can swell, causing it to press against the inside of the skull, resulting in further damage...
Though his words resound within my skull now, I didn't understand what he was talking about at the time; I could only think of living it up in Cambridge. After being rejected once as a transfer student I was applying again. The idea that I was 1) spending all that money, and 2) answering questions like "Describe your favorite book and why it changed your life irrevocably" and "Where do you see yourself in twenty years? What sort of tax shelters will you be using?" for the third time, all so I could attend a school whose name...
...raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy's temple and then to lift off the top of his skull...