In midtumble, between one jarring collision and the next, she glimpsed something between blood-streaked fingers-a fast-approaching rivulet winding across the shattered landscape.

Her memory was hazy; she remembered a figure in front of them on the bridge, a jarring collision, and a sensation of falling.

As might have been expected, the Detroit players initiated many jarring collisions in the first period.

Seconds later, the wave of flying debris had passed and the jarring collisions stopped just as abruptly as they had begun.

When Knoblauch was asked if the jarring collision had influenced him mentally and contributed to his slides, he said: "It was all physical.

Oden did not score on the drive, but the effort, athleticism and subsequent jarring collision showed just how devastating he can be on the basketball court.

Sadly, despairingly, Jessie and the others knew Pitt could never shake off the jarring collision with the wall.

They survived the breakup, the fiery descent through the atmosphere and the jarring collision with the ground and kept on reproducing until they were found three months later.

When asked how he felt when 240-pound Ben Wallace landed on top of him in a jarring collision, Yao replied, "I hope it didn't hurt him too much."

The disclosures highlight a jarring collision of two worlds: the hunting and whaling subsistence life of the natives, in a relatively pristine environment, and the Government's can-do engineering mentality.