Word: tear
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...rotation. Each disk is a round ligament, made up of an annulus, which is like a multilayered collagen basket that absorbs rotational stress, and a lighter-density liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into the spinal canal, it can injure the sciatic nerves that run down to the legs." Couples once likened the resulting pain to "a hand grenade going...
...into me in Cambridge this fall, I'll teach you the words to "There's a Tear in My Beer" and "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under." Just don't tell anyone. Not because I'm embarrassed--I just don't want them to find out what they're missing. Elizabeth A. Gudrais '01, a Crimson editor, is a literature concentrator in Adams House. She is spending the summer as a reporting intern at the Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota...
...making waffles for at age 73? Well, the following summer, I met another girl, and then another one in the fall, and then another one the following fall. I've figured out by now that while maybe the One is out there somewhere, it will take some wear and tear before I figure out it really is Her. The grades? Well, some pre-meds might still laugh at them until this day, and they're nothing to send off to Uncle Lou and Aunt Bernice in Port Chester, but at the same time I've also realized that they...
...often said these days that journalists like to build up heroes so they can tear them down. That's a bit of a misunderstanding. What journalists appreciate about heroes is the kind of journey they're on. It makes a great story, not least because the hero is taking a dangerous new path, fraught with setbacks and surprises. But it's the third act that really makes the story newsworthy, when "the hero comes back from his mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man," as Joseph Campbell wrote in The Hero with a Thousand Faces...
...Everybody wants to have coffee, but thatdoesn't mean you have to tear down the building,"Janet Cahaly says. "You can't stop change, but youcan guide it along, like children. You can't tellthe children to stop growing...