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...have at one time or another each been sidelined with career-threatening back injuries. Today even younger players like Fred Couples, Peter Jacobsen and Tiger Woods have closeted that backbreaking motion, along with their steel-shafted drivers, in favor of the gentle power of graphite and a more balanced, upright, back-friendly swing...
Then there's the swing itself. Today's back-friendly swing is more upright, with the hips and shoulders more level throughout the swing, to promote easier rotation. Even the idea of keeping your head down throughout the swing is on the way out, says top teaching pro Darrell Kestner. Superstars David Duval and Annika Sorenstam, he notes, have both taken to letting their head and eyes leave the ground at or even before impact, rather than lagging behind as the body comes out of its turn and releases toward the target. "That's the newest back-friendly swing change...
More than 75 years of digging in the ancient, arid sediments of East Africa has told scientists a great deal about the long evolutionary trail that led to modern human beings. They know about Lucy, the upright-walking proto-human australopithecine that strode the continent some 3.2 million years ago; about Homo habilis, the first known human species, which was making and using stone tools in the same region by 1.2 million years later; about Homo erectus, which emerged from Africa soon thereafter and spread across the world...
...those battery-powered gadgets with high-resolution screens that can hold thousands of pages of best-selling text. I have always been a Princess and the Pea kind of sleeper. The slightest noise--even the sound of a page being turned--is enough to make me sit bolt upright, as if a torpedo had just slammed into the powder room. E-books are noiseless. Also, since they are backlit, your bedmate can read them in the dark...
...Grissom's lost space capsule still looks pretty good after almost 38 years in the drink, thanks to its titanium-aluminum construction. It sits upright on a sandy knoll three miles deep, its window and parachute liner still intact and its periscope still extended. The words "Liberty Bell 7" and a fake crack painted on its side are still clearly visible. Even the singe marks left by the explosives that blew off that infamous hatch door are visible on the video sent back by a remote-control submersible...