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...ankle with a torn Achilles tendon will generally be normal, but simply examining the patient makes the diagnosis quite easy. Instead of the stout tendon, you feel mush with a hole or divot at the spot where it's torn. It's easy to compare with the other ankle. And there's a great test we do by squeezing the calf and watching the ankle move; on the good side, it wiggles up and down when we squeeze. On the torn side, there's no motion at all. Yes, there is an occasional partial tear that might be harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing Health Care: When Patients Don't Know Best | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...Joo’s other passion was rugby, the rough-and-tumble sport that her friends said she embraced. “The one thing that I feel most summed her up is that she never backed down from a challenge—be it something huge like her torn ACL in rugby, or something as small as an arm wrestling match,” Radcliffe Rugby co-captain Morgan M. W. Jessee ’09 wrote in an e-mail. “Joo met life head-on, and it’s what I admire most about...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kathlene S. G. Joo '11 | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

China's SEX-THEME PARK torn down before it even opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...midst of a heated battle - this time, about the countries' shared Soviet past. As Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko this week lamented that Ukraine had become "a hostage in the fight between two totalitarian regimes - fascist and communist" and called for Soviet-era symbols around the country to be torn down, his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev ordered the creation of a presidential commission "to counter attempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia and Ukraine Battle Over Their Shared History | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...walls of local government offices, visual tributes to the region's sitting presidents outnumber internet cafes, independent newspapers and working bank machines. But Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon aims to change all that. He has issued a decree that all portraits depicting him with local politicians are to be torn down immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tajikistan's President: No Photos, Please | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

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