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Pompoms, Pyramids and Peril
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3-31-2007 2:03 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8824f259-90c5-4bbd-bb5b-bab8991a8965/0E20651D-9183-4A36-A4BD-1BB8AC374918/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?ei=5090&en=c58443d649cbfe6a&ex=1332907200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?ei=5090&en=c58443d649cbfe6a&ex=1332907200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?ei=5090&en=c58443d649cbfe6a&ex=1332907200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print"><NYT_HEADLINE _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> Pompoms, Pyramids and Peril </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?ei=5090&en=c58443d649cbfe6a&ex=1332907200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/69C288FA-5ACF-4A10-B511-8B0B216AB164" alt="The New York Times" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?ei=5090&en=c58443d649cbfe6a&ex=1332907200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print"><P> Emergency room visits for cheerleading injuries nationwide have more than doubled since the early 1990s, and the rate of life-threatening injuries has startled researchers. Of 104 catastrophic injuries sustained by female high school and college athletes from 1982 to 2005 — head and spinal trauma that occasionally led to death — more than half resulted from cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. 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