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...occurred on July 5, when two monorails collided at the Magic Kingdom's main station at closing time, killing driver Austin Wuennenberg, who friends say was working his dream job. Next, on Aug. 10, actor Mark Priest died in a hospital where he was being treated for a broken vertebra in his neck and other injuries from a fall that took place four days earlier during a mock sword fight at Captain Jack's Pirate Tutorial audience-participation show. According to his friend Jeffrey Breslauer, Priest - just before he died - said he was performing the sword fight...
...determine disturbance in the topography. "We won't stop until we have exhausted all reasonable means," said Paul Feist, commander of the Albuquerque Police Department's Crime Lab. Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz said a piece of evidence is uncovered every day. "It may be as small as one vertebra to an ulna or radial bone," he said...
...obstacle was not an opposing player, but instead something much more innocuous—his back. Magnarelli suffered a stress-fractured vertebra and was placed into a back brace...
Activities such as cheerleading, gymnastics and football can lead to a fracture of the spine (spondylolysis)--typically at the fourth or fifth lumbar vertebra--or to spondylolisthesis, in which one vertebra slips away from its neighbor. Both cause chronic lower back pain, which is otherwise uncommon in children...
...When Mike transfers back to Harvard after the attacks, he is utterly out-of-touch with reality. Nearly every time he opens his mouth, he spews out lies (with one exception: he carries on a frank, two-way conversation with a fossilized vertebra at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.) His behavior grows increasingly pathological: at one point, he embarks on a bid to convince his fellow students not to buy newspapers from the homeless man in Harvard Square who sells Spare Change News...