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I can still feel the stiffness of their fingers as I grasped their hands. I can still see the eyes of longing as they watched a movie being made about the game they still loved. I knew firsthand the willingness of Texas high school football players to sacrifice themselves to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Football and the Price of Paralysis | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

Concussions are the hot topic, and their residual effects can be hideous. But they are not the only injuries in a game increasingly engorged with unholy violence at all levels. Catastrophic spinal-cord injuries are rare, but in Texas alone there are roughly two a year. That information comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Football and the Price of Paralysis | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

Chris was transported 32 miles (50 km) from San Marcos to University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin. There a doctor told Eddie and Pita Canales that their son was paralyzed from the shoulders down. Eddie, the director of operations at the University of Texas at San Antonio bookstore, quit his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Football and the Price of Paralysis | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

For officials looking for insights into which sex-education models to copy, however, figuring out why some states have been more successful than others at reducing teen pregnancy will not be easy, especially when it comes to cases for and against the now largely discontinued abstinence-until-marriage education. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Data: Teen Pregnancy on the Rise, Abortions Too | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

Bin Laden's example may have been an inspiration for the Northwest attempt, but so what? If he didn't exist, there would be any number of historical figures who could be held up as inspiration, from the Prophet Muhammad to the four caliphs that followed him. It's little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why bin Laden Isn't Worth Worrying About | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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