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...reports warn that concussions from sports are far more prevalent than once thought. About 63,000 occur annually among U.S. high school students, mostly during football games. And given the number of headers in soccer, it's no surprise that Dutch researchers report that 50% of all soccer players suffer concussions. What's more, a U.S. study of college football players found that two or more concussions can impair intellectual performance. Tip to parents and coaches: not only blackouts but also dizziness and confusion are signs of a concussion...
...PHILADELPHIA is going to win this week. I can just feel it. That, or I am coming down with something. But seriously, this could be the moment for the Bucs' QB, Trent Dilfer, to suffer a gigantic nervous breakdown. On a more positive note, we could just see the Eagles' Duce Staley run away with the ball and take the birds to a 16-10 victory...
Some things never change. Somewhere, some future president in the Class of '03 is about to suffer the trauma of rejection from Harvard Model Congress, or Let's Go, or any one of the selective student groups on campus. He or she is probably going to think it's because their writing sample wasn't good enough. Maybe, in their innocence, they'd never think it had something to do with whom the person who got the post is dating, or where they went to prep school...
...President Neil L. Rudenstine] said, 'We're not going to nickel and dime this,'" says one source, noting the University ultimately agreed to cover the cost. "He made it clear that the new Institute would not suffer financially on any of the disputed issues...
...knew, the task was a brand-new one each time he confronted it. Yet as the days wore on, his performance improved. Some part of his brain was retaining a memory of an earlier practice session, a so-called implicit--rather than explicit, or consciously remembered--memory. People who suffer from Alzheimer's disease exhibit the same sort of behavior--and it's the medial temporal lobe that is first affected by this devastating disease...