Dean of IU School of Medicine appointed to Olympic Committee\nHe may not have won a gold medal, but Craig Brater has received his own Olympic-type honor.\nThe U.S. Olympic Committee recently appointed Brater, the dean of the IU School of Medicine, to become one of five members of its Ethics Committee.\nAlong with his other committee appointees, Brater will assist the board of directors and management to ensure the USOC maintains the highest standard of ethical conduct and integrity in all business matters. \nBrater said he is excited the USOC appointed him to the committee and looks forward to helping maintain the importance of ethics in sports.\n"I have always been Pollyanna-ish in believing that sports, in many ways, are a metaphor for life, and, as such, should adhere to the high values and be a form of role modeling," Brater said. "It is my fervent desire that the (ethics) committee exerts national, if not international, leadership in re-establishing the values in sports."
Man discovers 4-inch nail embedded deep inside skull\nLITTLETON, Colo. -- Construction worker Patrick Lawler, 23, was working Jan. 6 in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains, when a nail gun backfired. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler did not realize the gun had shot a second 4-inch nail 1.5 inches into his brain.\nSix days later, Lawler went to a dental office complaining of a toothache that just would not go away. \nAn X-ray revealed the nail, and surgeons removed it Jan. 14 after a four-hour surgery. The nail was just millimeters from his right eye, said Dr. Sean Markey, who operated on Lawler.\n"This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realize the nail had been embedded in their skull," Markey told KUSA-TV in Denver. "But it's a pretty rare injury."\nLawler said he does not know how he will pay medical bills, estimated to reach $100,000. He is uninsured.\n"I was self-employed on the job," he said. "I would have had to carry my own health insurance. But I didn't think I'd shoot myself with a nail, you know"
