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...forward Travis Roy tragically ended his collegiate hockey career only 11 seconds after it started. Hitting the boards at an unusual angle, Roy broke his fourth cervical vertebra and has never regained full use of his arms and legs...
Eaves fractured his C-5 vertebra and will be out of action for a minimum of six weeks. Although he will require a brace to immobilize his neck, Eaves is expected to make a full recovery...
Peggy McKendry, the bow rower for the Brown shell, suffered a broken rib and a cracked vertebra, O’Leary said...
Instantaneous and voluntary was not supposed to be a state of motor control Reeve would ever achieve again--not since he fractured his neck at the second cervical vertebra in a horseback-riding accident in 1995. But Reeve's doctors announced last week that a little of what the actor lost that day is coming back. He can move the other fingers of his left hand too, as well as his right wrist. He can straighten his arms and legs and, in a swimming pool, initiate a step and push off against the wall. And he can survive...
...were great art looters as well as destroyers, it seems: they dug here for treasure and, in the process, brought human remains to the surface. To illustrate this, Nasir pokes around in an earthen bank with a stick, discarding bits of animal bones, and finally pulls out a human vertebra. The soldiers offer a more pleasant souvenir: fragments of pottery, smashed by Genghis Khan's men. "Take it, they're everywhere," one man says. "We just throw it away...