Cotto, who was defending his World Boxing Association super-welterweight title, stalked Mayweather most of the night, often keeping his undefeated rival on the ropes and throwing right and left hooks to Mayweather's body.

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First Burns had Martinez pinned on the ropes, thumping right and left hands at his opponent's head and body.

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Ms Giffords suffered a bullet wound to her brain's left hemisphere, which controls speech and movement for the right side of the body.

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The charioteer faces almost forward, but twists his torso to the left, his left hip seductively forward, and bends his right knee, which sets his whole body into sensuous curves.

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The 34-year-old Ellis was clearly out of his depth as Maccarinelli smashed a right hand through his guard and finished the contest with another left to the body.

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But tilt it to the left or right, or move it towards one side of your body or another, and the screen goes blurry.

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Shift your weight to the back foot and turn the body sharply to the right to catch the punch high on the left shoulder.

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For reasons that lie deep in the evolutionary history of the vertebrates, the right hemisphere deals with sensory input from the left-hand side of the body, and vice versa.

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But I knew the only thing that would make everything right would be for her husband to walk through the door right now, safe and whole in body and mind, the same man he was when he left.

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