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Machine-gun fire raked down the passenger aisle and into the cockpit, wrecking part of the instrument panel. Bullets tore into the back of the plane's engineer as he tried to help the two pilots get the shuddering plane under control; he died on the spot. Another blast killed a stewardess. Barely two minutes after the attack began, Blown wrestled the burning DC-4 onto the ocean surface. Miraculously, a dinghy appeared among the debris. Nine survivors struggled aboard. As rescue planes alerted by Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British...
...with thick concrete-block walls. She even invited two other families--15 children and 10 adults--to shelter with her. The illusion did not last long. The 36-year-old mother of two was pouring Turkish coffee in small china cups for her guests when the shell hit. It tore into the upstairs bedroom, blasting a 10-ft.-wide hole in the outer wall and shattering an interior wall, blowing out all the windows and hurling shrapnel into a jumble of mattresses where the family normally sleeps. Instantly, the house filled with smoke. "Oh my! Oh my!" exclaimed Muharemi, tugging...
...output without changing current patterns of corporate and even individual behavior. And no U.S. leader has yet been willing to confront the American people with that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third Way" socialist...
...Vietnam just a couple years later. In those days they were still doing the thing with the cigarettes - the pack held in place with a rolled-up T-shirt sleeve. Elvis was still important, still vital, at least to them. They wore their hair like Elvis, slicked back. They tore apart cars or motorcycles and undeneath their fingernails there was always a line of black. I called them greasers. They had names...
...think it's definitely going to get everyone's attention," onlooker Christopher M. Colosi '03 said, laughing as Cho tore off his sweatpants to reveal tight DHA briefs...