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...while after seeing the heifer die. There's a better way: the usda has developed regulations for shooting bison in the field. When shot from a distance, the animals don't know what hit them--bison famously don't even run when their herdmates start falling from gunshot. Under the regulations, an inspector must attend the kill and the animal must be transported to a usda butchering facility within the day. Your bison burger would cost more if it came from an animal killed this way. But it would be a small price to pay not only to save...
...pass many evenings snoozing or watching television as nothing happened. Not any more. Now Shuwetij, the senior doctor on staff at the al-Kindy Teaching Hospital, works the overnight shift most every night. Usually about five or six patients arrive in Shuwetij's emergency room every evening. Most have gunshot wounds. Others have burns and lacerations from explosions. Shuwetij rarely asks what happened, in any case. "Most of the patients are exhausted when they come in," says Shuwetij, whose deep brown eyes sag heavily as he describes his days and nights at work as a trauma surgeon...
More important than the awards, though, is the rare mix of ambition and imagination on display in the Mexicans' films. Babel, written by Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga, is a sprawling story of chance and destiny; a random gunshot from a reckless Moroccan boy triggers anguished events in Mexico, the U.S. and Japan. Children of Men conjures up a future world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape...
Police found Hill dead and her husband Paul N. Gailiunas ’92 suffering from multiple gunshot wounds as he cradled his unharmed two-year-old son in his arms, according to a police report...
...Saddam joined the pan-Arab nationalist Baath Party in 1957. Two years later, at the age of 22, Saddam was part of a Baathist plot to assassinate General Abdul Karim Kassem, who had overthrown the monarchy of King Faisal II a year before. Saddam escaped Iraq with a gunshot wound in the leg and spent the next six years in exile in Cairo where he had contacts with the CIA. The American spy agency was backing the Baathists at the time...