If you've ever read the sports pages, watched a sporting event or competed in a sport yourself, it wouldn't take you long to come across at least one ACL injury. The legs that were relied on completely are no longer stable. Major surgery followed by up to a year off of sports, all the time hoping ...

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Though fourth- and fifth-graders typically stand less than five feet tall and weigh less than 100 pounds, you can have a startlingly high-level conversation with them, during which you're likely to learn what they unabashedly love: to be praised; to be asked their opinion and tell you what they know; to belong, be it to clubs or teams or other groups; and to hear true stories, not just made-up ones. ...

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