Word: sternum
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...long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could so easily have been otherwise...
RECOVERING. ROBERT HUGHES, 60, author, art historian and critic for TIME; from multiple injuries sustained when the car he was driving was in a head-on collision near Broome, Australia. (Three others were injured.) Hughes, who suffered fractures of the ribs, sternum and right leg, was in Australia to film a TV series, Beyond the Fatal Shore, a sequel to his best-selling book, The Fatal Shore...
...Even so, says paleontologist Mark Norell, it shares a number of features with modern birds. "In Archaeopteryx, for example," he explains, "the fibula ((the thin bone in the leg)) touches the ankle. In birds that doesn't happen, and the same is true of Mononychus. Birds have a keeled sternum ((or breastbone)), where the flight muscles attach. Mononychus also had a keeled sternum." Some of Mononychus' wristbones were fused together, which is another hallmark of adaptation for flight, suggesting that Mononychus may have evolved from a flying animal, just as ostriches and emus are descended from flying birds. That being...
Harvard got aggressive play from both lines and both defensive pairs. Last weekend's stat, Alissi, shifted to the blue line where she was paired with classmate Beth Mess-more. The duo of Stickles and Walton, who is nursing a sternum injury, also did an excellent job of containing one of the premier offensive units in women's hockey...