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...sign of life they will see for 10 days in the Sahara. The open truck trundles across barren flatlands during endless chilly nights and sweltering days. A canvas cover partially blocks the sun, but a hot wind whips at the overexposed travelers. The two Sudanese men sharing driving duties ration the water, pouring a few small plastic cupfuls for the passengers every couple of hours. Abdi Salan quickly realizes that his survival depends on how well the truck withstands the heat...
...opens its petals to the sky. On the third anniversary of his accident, his mother, Marie Humbert, sat beside his hospital bed as she always had. Then she injected him with a cocktail of barbiturates. "I did it," she told a doctor, according to the French newspaper Libération. But she hadn't done it. The dose left Vincent in a coma, but failed to kill him. Within hours, the police had arrested her, and doctors had hooked her son up to artificial life support. A three-year nightmare had become darker still...
...bigger than his," said Lieut. General William Boykin, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, referring to a Somali warlord he once crossed swords with. The echo of a famous dog-food commercial was unintentional, we must hope. Presumably, Boykin's God does not eat Ken-L Ration. But maybe Boykin does so himself, because he's a mighty frisky fella...
...points ahead of Raikkonen. But the 2003 trophy would be the greater achievement of the two, because it's been a much closer contest. That's in part due to new rules introduced at the start of the season. The sport's ruling body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (fia), revised its points system to prevent a repeat of last year's easy Ferrari win. For instance, second-place finishers were given more points than before, allowing Raikkonen to be competitive even though he has only won one race, compared with Schumacher's six. Teams...
...reservoir of goodwill he had stored up by entertaining the American military on all its battlefields, in all its wars, for a half-century. Those lonely young men, facing death, didn't want soul; they wanted cheek and sass, a moment's escape, girl gags, second-lieutenant gags, K-ration gags--well-machined jokes that drowned out the machinery of war. They loved him for the trouble he took on their behalf. And their affection spread outward...