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...crash site, began to converge on the car. They tried gently to free me but couldn't. Later I was told that some of them formed a semicircle by the car and began to chant, trying to sing me back to life. A Filipina nurse from the Bidyadanga settlement presently joined them and (I afterward learned) wept as she heard me mechanically counting aloud. I thought I was trying to stay conscious; she thought I was counting off my last moments. For all I know, we were both right...
...Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, is likely to cooperate with the network bigwigs. Nielsen, trapped at the station by the fierce Antarctic winter, has become famous for reportedly having found a lump in her breast and for treating herself with chemotherapy drugs dropped to the isolated settlement in a daring air mission. She's also made it clear that she's not keen on having every detail of her plight made public - specifics of her condition have been withheld at her request. But that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly...
...care costs for veterans, military personnel, federal employees and the elderly through Medicare payments. Although under the law an award could be triple that if the feds can get a jury to see things their way, even $75 billion seems suspiciously like small potatoes compared to the $240 billion settlement the states got and the $500 billion-plus proposal that John McCain wanted...
Jordan may want to help Israel and Yasser Arafat as they try to reach a peace settlement, but it?s not about to put its own stability on the line for its neighbors. So although Jordanian authorities on Wednesday showed themselves willing by arresting three senior leaders of the anti-peace-process Hamas organization, King Abdullah?s government will stop short of a full-scale confrontation with Hamas. "Jordan itself has no problem with Hamas, and this clampdown is being undertaken on behalf of Israel and the Palestinians," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "But Jordan will always...
Such unchanging details make Rowling's innovations in each book seem particularly dramatic. This time out, for example, third-year students with signed permission slips from a parent or guardian are allowed periodic visits to Hogsmeade, a nearby village known as "the only entirely non-Muggle settlement in Britain." Naturally, Harry's vile Uncle Vernon refuses to sign anything relating to Hogwarts, so Harry faces the prospect of missing the fun or finding a way around the rules. And Harry meets another little problem: a dangerous killer has escaped from the wizard prison of Azkaban and is reportedly...