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...network could have filmed a whole docudrama to tell the story of cyclist Armstrong, who came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France twice--only to be smacked down by a car on a lonely French road just weeks before these Olympics. He fractured a vertebra in his neck that day. "We were in the middle of nowhere," he said. "The next car to come by was my wife an hour and a half later." At least she didn't run him over...
AILING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 28, two-time Tour de France winner and cancer conqueror; with a broken vertebra in his neck; after a downhill, blind-curve collision with a car that destroyed his bike and helmet; near Nice, France. Armstrong, who was training for the Olympics, still hopes to compete in Sydney...
Nurse Lynn Buss and her husband, who have put three football-player sons through Webster Groves, wince whenever someone takes a good hit. She knows them by name and by injury. "Look, Matt Koch is playing," she points out. "He had an injured vertebra last year." She erupts when junior Jerry Bailey scores. "Hey, that guy was in my clinic at 4 yesterday pretending he was sick! That little stinker...
...Michael Bershad recalled his car being pulled to the side of the road by a bright object. "I got out of the car and saw five guys under 4 ft. tall. They led me inside the craft." A leader examined him, opening up his back to poke around his vertebra. The extraterrestrials also extracted sperm. "I had a lot of shame," says Bershad. "It was humiliating and degrading...
Although Sacrison describes himself as an amateur paleontologist who has never traveled outside his own time zone, he is too modest. In a sense, he has spent more time in the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, than many professionals. Since he found his first dinosaur bone, a triceratops vertebra, at age 8, he has scoured the landscape looking for more artifacts of the distant past. Counting his latest discovery, he has found two of the world's 14 known skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex. Sacrison helped excavate the first last year, only a quarter-mile from his latest find...