Investigators in white protective suits walked shoulder to shoulder, carrying wands, searching for minute evidence.
For this is the slow-creeper that, during 2000 and beyond, stole my heart, blew my mind, broke my funny bone in 12 places and practically dislocated my shoulder carrying the sodding thing everywhere I went in the pre-iPod age.
In high school I wanted a lightening bolt on my lower back, in college I wanted a sailboat on my foot, and I've recently fantasized about a bald eagle on my left shoulder carrying an American flag in its talons.
Continuous swimming and small-sided games are routine training methods of elite water polo players; however, repetitive load on the shoulder carries increased injury risk.
Data on nine different types of biomechanical exposure were available, including the number of years of exposure during their working lives (carrying loads, bending trunk, drive a vehicle, kneeling, climbing stairs, climbing ladder, working with arm over the shoulder, carrying load on the shoulder and manipulating a vibrating tool).
Alistair Darling, the Labour chancellor who introduced the 50p rate, backed its return, saying "people with the broadest shoulders carry their fair share of the burden".
"Their shoulders carried me throughout my stay," he says.
Separate groups of men and women chanted in favor of Iraq, a boy on a man's shoulders carried a sign saying "I love 11 September" in English and the rally was over within an hour.
And yet the beautiful brown cape on this Saxony's shoulders carried the deep past of evolution directly into the present, where I stood with the drake under my arm, watching the leaves whirl away from summer into fall, while the rest of the flock grazed nearby as if this were just another good day to be a duck.
In the run up to the match, Jurgen Melzer, the Austrian No. 1 who beat Alex Bogdanovic in four sets to put Austria 1-0 ahadd, had suggested that Murray's exploits at Flushing Meadows, and the pressure on his shoulders carrying his country's Davis Cup hopes, might prove too much for the young Scot.
Filling out Merrion Square in central Dublin on a cold January Saturday are men, women and children on shoulders, carrying photos of babies and pink and yellow banners emblazoned with anti-abortion slogans.
