President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen seems impervious to outside pressure and even his own injuries as he maneuvers back into the game.

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Long hailed as one of the safest car producers in the world, Volvo hopes to retain that reputation by introducing vehicles that can avoid passenger injuries on their own by the year 2020.

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The data covers some of the years between the two mass shootings in the Denver area -- the 1999 one at Columbine High School that resulted in 13 deaths and more than 20 injuries before the shooters took their own lives, and July's mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora that killed 12 people and wounded 58.

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But if they get their wish for two more regular season games, they could be starting the process of destroying their own game, thanks to more injuries and the far-reaching implications of those injuries.

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Having lost Murphy and Alan Quinlan to injuries, Munster pressed on and pinned the visitors back in their own half for much of the remainder.

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Australia have been hit hard by injuries, almost to the same point that England experienced back in November last year when their own resources were ravaged.

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But the injuries to Jablonski and Privette have Minnesota, the soul of United States hockey, searching its own soul to figure out why these events happened, if there is anything they can do to stop them, and whether there is something wrong in the culture of the sport.

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At the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Douglas Anderson and Paul Reier are gearing up to transplant fetal spinal cord into patients whose own cords have been crushed, as happens in over two-thirds of all spinal injuries.

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