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...RESTAURANTS Bakfickan A small food bar behind the opera house. Jakobs Torg 12 (08-676-58-00; operakallaren.se) Mathias Dahlgren, Grand Hotel Stockholm Partly because we designed it. Also because Mathias is such an extraordinary cook. Sodra Blasieholmshamnen 6 (08-679-35-84; mathiasdahlgren.com) Den Gyldene Freden One of the oldest restaurants in Stockholm. It's rather severe but great. Oster-langgatan 51 (08-24-97-60; gyldenefreden.se...
Sports doctors and equipment engineers have struggled over the years to make football safer. Voigt Hodgson, a Wayne State University bioengineer, says helmet improvements have led to an 85% decrease in serious brain injury among all football players since 1958. Research by Dr. Joseph Torg, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Sports Medicine Center, led to rule changes in 1976 that banned "spearing," in which a player uses his helmet as a battering ram to tackle an opponent. Torg had shown that spearing was a leading cause of neck injuries (indeed, experts are debating whether Byrd accidentally speared...
...equipment I know of will protect the cervical spine if kids use the wrong technique," contends Torg. The N.F.L., he argues, should set the example for safe play, since less experienced players are influenced by watching pro games. Frederick Mueller, a University of North Carolina physical-education professor who conducts annual surveys of catastrophic ) football injuries, says "announcers do a disservice" with their enthusiasm for particularly violent hits. "They're putting the wrong message across to young players...
...fact, the last score in a Harvard-Yale game came two years ago when Betsy Torg had the goal and Both Mullen had the assist. Lamont closed out that 1-0 win with a shutout...
...Saturday, Mullen, Torg and Lamont closed out their Harvard field hockey careers...