Word: wounding
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...left Russia instead of serving in the army. This, it seems, is where I get my bravery from. But later, when Reuben's dad was looking to get the rest of the family out of Russia, he sent family members to scout out New York, Brazil and Argentina and wound up ditching my great-grandfather and taking his eight other kids to Argentina, where they made a lot more money than their American siblings. All my cousins there are rich artists. Which means, according to everything I know about family histories, my son will become a rich artist...
...from Boise, Idaho, with a trailer full of children's clothes and a vow to help Haiti's orphans "find healing, hope, joy and new life in Christ." "Our hearts were in the right place," she insisted, but her head was somewhere else entirely, and they all wound up in jail. We know a bit more now about her regard for the niceties of law and protocol: unpaid debts, civil lawsuits, a house in foreclosure and an improvised mission to scoop up a load of children and head to the border without so much as a license or even confirmation...
...than done. It looks even harder after the earthquake, given the overwhelming demand for artificial limbs: of the 250,000 people injured, doctors estimate as many as 100,000 are amputees. And that doesn't count the victims who will probably need limbs amputated down the line because of wound infections. Outside the Medishare tent ward, Florida orthopedic surgeon Dr. Albert Volk watches a teenage girl limp by on crutches and shakes his head. "An open tibia fracture, with the bone exposed," he says. "Chances are in six months she'll lose the leg below the knee." (See children...
...religious fervor among its advocates, especially given its tie to Ronald Reagan. In 1983, he launched the Strategic Defense Initiative, which ultimately gave birth to the airborne laser, expressing his desire to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." The nuke-laden enemy Reagan was focused on - the Soviet Union - wound up being impotent and obsolete. Nuclear weapons, alas, are still alive and well...
Northeastern freshman Garrett Vermeersch wound up for a hard slapshot from the blue line that was deflected in by junior Wade MacLeod. Kyle Kraemer had the secondary assist...