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...spine, in which the C3 and C4 vertebrae in his spinal cord were telescoped when he went in to tackle the Broncos' Domenik Hixon on a kickoff return. Everett's helmeted head made contact with the hard plastic of Hixon's shoulder pad, and he immediately dropped to the ground, his spinal cord shocked by the impact. "He had a compressive load to his spine, and the spine doesn't handle those kinds of loads very well," says Dr. Joseph Kowalski, director of the Spine Center at Erie County Medical Center, and an orthopedic specialist who has spoken with Everett...
...contrast to these calls for Harvard to embrace a more active role in solving the challenges of modern society, the university is avoiding the opportunity to be a civic leader in Allston as it prepares to break ground on the largest physical expansion in its history...
...Radcliffe, Rogers oversaw the Radcliffe Development Office as well as the Radcliffe Association, formerly the Radcliffe College Alumni Association. Rogers said her seven years of experience working with Faust will help her hit the ground running...
...York Times, one of the few major newspapers to run a review, has taken the middle ground, calling the book “ruthlessly realistic” and saying the authors make their case “deliberately and dispassionately.” But the review went on to call the book a “prosecutorial brief” and said that its “general tone of hostility to Israel grates on the nerves...
...moms sending children who never met their fathers off to their first day of kindergarten. There are the first responders who are discovering that they are sick and in need of treatment, including 2000 New York City fire fighters. There are the presidential candidates who regularly patrol the sacred ground; Giuliani goes there in every speech, Edwards talked about confronting terrorism a few blocks from Ground Zero, and the entire political debate this week is wrapped around the progress of a war that magnifies memory and distorts it. The 9/11 attack united us; the response to it divides...