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...shoulder is set up differently than any other joint. Whereas your hip can be likened to a ball in a socket (a cantaloupe in a bowler hat seems more apt) your shoulder, bone-wise is like a basketball on a tea-saucer. It has very little mechanical stability by virtue of its bony architecture. In other words, it would be always dislocated were it not for the soft tissues that surround it. Your shoulder moves more widely and in more different ways than any other joint in the body, yet it's very strong. The design feature that enables these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rotator Cuffs: the Next Big Thing | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...stays parked tonight, but Brian Duggan says most cowboys take that particular ride eventually. Duggan, 27-who didn't ride his bull but didn't need first aid either-has had a broken arm, leg, jaw and eye socket, and a couple of busted knees. "We're pretty tough-bred people that do this," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Buck Stops | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...they agree can be revealing. When the conversation turns to childhood pets and I mention a beloved one-eyed dog, they all make empathetic faces, but Maguire, 36, gets teary, Robison, 33, laughs at her sister's sensitivity, and Maines, 31, says she would have poked around the empty socket "just to check it out." On Iraq, Maguire begins, "The night we sent missiles over ..." while Maines prefers, "When we bombed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicks In the Line of Fire | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...paragraph on “IT Security,” Kirby wrote, “During the summer of 2005, all non-secure email access to FAS was shut down, allowing only SSL-encrypted (Secure Socket Layer) IMAP and POP sessions...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Kirby, A (54 Page) Long Goodbye | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...explain why the bleeding would not stop.A specialist was brought in to examine the injury. The diagnosis: an artery behind Brown’s left eye had ruptured. It took an emergency blood transfusion and another surgery, this time a reconstruction of Brown’s eye socket and nose in Keene, N.H.—“they did an incredible job as far as keeping the scarring down,” says Brown—before he could begin the road to recovery.“A phenomenally, phenomenally unpleasant experience,” he says...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL '06: The Apotheosis of Captain Morgan | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

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