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...Each year in the United States, about 300,000 athletes experience sports-related traumatic brain injuries. In the NFL, approximately 100 players suffer concussions resulting from collisions averaging 98 times the force of gravity...
...Chicago Bear Merril Hoge retired after suffering two concussions within 42 days. Because he was not required to have a second evaluation following his initial treatment, he returned to the field five days after his first concussion, only to suffer a hit to the same unhealed spot. Past and current players suggest that playing despite injury is implied and expected. But Hoge, wary of the danger of multiple concussions, claims that he was fortunate: “Second impact syndrome kills you...I got lucky...
...between them and the established Anglican Church. Some radical Protestants, known as Dissenters, had already fled to Holland. The Virginia Co. lured some Dissenters over and opened negotiations with others. One boatload of Pilgrims, blown north, landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. Religious pluralism in British North America would suffer many backtracks and false starts (Virginia would develop its own Anglican establishment as time passed), but the first step was taken in Jamestown...
...been virtually identical to Hillary's in the Senate. Bill has "verged on feckless in this respect," grumbles a leading Democratic fund raiser who has defected from the Clinton camp to Obama's. Both Clintons have made the case to potential fund-raisers that the U.S. will probably suffer a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 after the next President is sworn in - and that Hillary is the only Democratic candidate capable of handling such a crisis because of her Senate Armed Services Committee tenure and her years in the White House...
...their discontent about this latest federal development, but they’re turning the pro-choice movement into a forum for political donations and media attention. Why can’t we bring to the forefront the issues surrounding abortion that matter (i.e. shedding light upon the women who suffer most from the abortion infrastructure...