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...meter diving event as sophomore Josh Gallant brought in 32 points with a score of 316.30. Princeton freshman Kent DeMond’s 311.80 earned second while Harvard sophomore Enrique Roy placed third with 302.80. Roy did not compete in this meet last year due to a skull fracture he incurred during warm...
...gave birth--three months prematurely--to her triplet sons. Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions--brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling--often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy...
...still they crash. Austria's Hannes Trinkl, who suffered a cracked skull and a concussion in training at Schladming in November, recovered to take second place to the season's top downhiller Stephan Eberharter at Wengen in January. Third in that race was Josef Strobl, who fell in training for the next race, tearing knee ligaments and putting him out of action for six months. Robert Brunner, agent for a number of top Austrian skiers, is, like the racers, philosophical about the dangers. "There is a risk every racer takes when he goes downhill," he says. "They go very fast...
Pike, a graduate of Eliot House, suffered a fractured skull, and received brain surgery at a hospital in Patagonia. After the surgery, Pike was moved to a hospital in Buenos Aires...
...Ming, his students like to say, is "half man, half amazing." But when he's breaking boulders with his skull or flying above ground upside down in a full split, that hardly does him justice. Even when he holds still (which isn't often), the 37-year-old Shaolin Temple fighting monk manages to look more mythical than mortal. He's got the face of a Xian terra-cotta warrior?acrobatically piked eyebrows, rampart-like cheekbones?and the kind of body that helps explain why kung fu is called...