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Still, the Louisville team is optimistic. Heartened by their animal experiments, in which flaps of bone, tendon and muscle were attached to young pigs for up to three months, the doctors convinced their review boards at the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital that a hand transplant was, as the team's chief surgeon, Dr. Warren C. Breidenbach of Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, put it, "the next logical step...
...turn to the University of Connecticut (UCONN). UCONN's women's basketball team is ranked number three in the country, led by the outstanding Nykesha Sales. Led, that is, until she suffered a season-ending Achilles' tendon injury in a game on Saturday, February 21. And in a cruel twist of fate, Sales, a senior, suffered the injury needing only one more field goal to become UCONN's all-time leading scorer...
Unfortunately, Captain Bodgit injured a tendon in the Preakness and had to be retired. So on Saturday Silver Charm will try to beat Free House and six other challengers. A victory for Silver Charm would also be a victory for the industry, which seems on the verge of recovery after years of declining interest. "It's nice being the last jockey to do it," Affirmed's rider Steve Cauthen said the other day at Churchill Downs. "But I'll be rooting for Silver Charm in the Belmont. It'll be great for racing if that little horse does...
President Bok ruptures his Achilles tendon during a basketball game against Crimson editors...
...Vice President Al Gore '69 yesterday, in a joke to the Gridiron Club of Washington D.C., on Bill Clinton's pre-accident attitude toward attending the club's annual lampoon dinner. Gore stood in for the President, who is recuperating from surgery to repair a knee tendon, which he tore earlier this week in a staircase stumble...