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Unfortunately for the Crimson, that opportunity will not come. Folkl, the Cardinal's leading scorer and rebounder and the 1997 NCAA Player of the Year in volleyball, tore her anterior cruciate ligament and suffered damage to meniscus cartilage in her left knee during a routine lay-up drill in practice on Tuesday...
Folkl, a second-team All-American and Player ofthe Year candidate, tore the anterior cruciate andmedial collateral ligaments in her left kneeduring practice on Tuesday and will miss the restof the Tournament. The loss of Folkl will clearlyhurt Stanford significantly...
Then came the wind, great gusty blasts out of the Northwest. It lifted the dust from the parched fields and swirled it across the land. It tore the powdery soil from the roots of the wheat and deposited it like snowdrifts miles away. Concrete highways were buried under six inches of dust. The rich fertility of a million farms took to the air: 300,000,000 tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their names in grime upon their table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall...
...less every time. If Korea was not a good war, Vietnam was a distinctly bad one. The 15-year struggle in Indochina was even bloodier, more costly and harder to understand than Korea, and its support ebbed away. As the war wore on, it filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged down a President and came close to destroying the Army. While the G.I.s of World War II were loved, the grunts of Vietnam, no longer "our boys" in the same way, were reviled and sometimes spit...
Harvard sophomore forward Laela Sturdy went down early in the second half with an injury to her knee. Preliminary indications were that she tore her medial collateral ligament, but a confirmed diagnosis will be available today...