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...Forgetting their survey, they began digging carefully at the site and uncovered other bones, some animal and some that were finally identified in 1967 as human skull fragments. Still picking away in a 10-ft.-deep shaft last month, the scientists found two additional major skull fragments, finger and wrist bones, rib fragments, an eye socket and what is probably a leg bone, enabling them to confirm that the early human was similar to modern man and had died around...
...question of transition from squash to tennis arises from a difference in stroke technique. A player uses much more wrist action in swinging a squash racket and therefore undercuts his groundstroke. In tennis, the strokes are longer and more graceful. A player often puts overspin on both his forehand and backhand. Tennis strategy also necessitales a factor of restraint which is not present in squash because of the surrounding walls...
...freshman year alone, he knocked four goalies out of the game with injuries and one completely unconscious. In his first varsity game, one of his 20-yard shots sent the goalie to the hospital for wrist X-rays...
...presented their latest hand-and-heart findings to the American College of Cardiology last week. Although the cause and nature of a heart defect or disorder are often obscure, the doctors suggested that these may become apparent to "the cardiovascular sleuth who lingers a moment longer at the radial (wrist) pulse to inspect the hand closely...
Nayar joined Harvard's varsity last year as a sophomore. Coach Jack Barnaby said that his greatest strength is his "extraordinary fleetness of foot and ability to retrieve shots," which lets him play an apparently reckless game. Sharp, quick wrist shots that hide his moves are another advantage he has over most collegiate players, who use a full-arm swing...