Word: fielding
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...depressing scene at Ohiri Field two Saturdays ago. The Harvard women's soccer team had just been stunned 2-1 by Columbia in its regular season finale, and the prevailing sentiment was that the Crimson's season was over...
...knee injury--damage to the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL. As increasing numbers of young women lace up their cleats and head out onto the field, more are showing up in infirmaries and operating rooms with a partly torn or completely ruptured ACL. This is a lot more serious than an ankle sprain or a jammed finger. The ACL is the knee's most important stabilizer and if severely injured can require surgical repair and cause permanent, perhaps career-ending damage...
...boards for as little as 20 minutes a day over a period of six weeks can improve coordination of the hamstrings and the gastrocnemius muscles in the calves, protecting the ACL during athletic twists and turns. Training properly and developing physical conditioning will not only help level the playing field for female athletes but also keep them on it longer...
Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love--none...
...first-person account "I Shot an Israeli" by a militant Hamas field leader describing his actions in a street fight shocked me to the core [WORLD, Oct. 23]. How could anyone be so vicious as to get pleasure out of shooting Israelis? I applaud you for printing this article. It tells us of the hatred preached by the Islamic movement Hamas, and how hard it is to find peace in the Middle East because of the hate groups and terrorist organizations that are widely accepted throughout the Arab world. It seems as if Israel will have to continue to fund...