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Fields was speeding in the right lane when a car attempting to merge onto the freeway cut him off, Brewer said. Fields attempted to swerve out of the way, but was blocked by an oncoming truck. Unable to switch lanes safely, Fields lost control of the car which, rolled several times...
...Mocelim. Mocelim had been suffering from constant exhaustion, and doctors told him of a surgeon who might be able to help. Batista's procedure enabled Mocelim to increase the amount of blood pumped through his body from 15% to 60%. That was three years ago. Today Mocelim drives a truck and regularly plays soccer...
...rubber (mostly), wood and aluminum and can be assembled with local materials. In Afghanistan craftsmen hammer the foot together out of spent artillery shells. In Cambodia, where roughly 1 out of every 380 people is a war amputee, part of the foot's rubber components are scavenged from truck tires...
Then one day, while riding his bicycle to the hospital, Chandra ran over a nail, and his tire went flat. He wheeled his bicycle to a roadside stall, where the repairman was busy retreading a truck tire with vulcanized rubber. Once his bicycle was fixed, Chandra raced to the hospital and consulted with Sethi. Soon Chandra returned to the tire shop with an amputee patient and a foot cast. He asked the repairman if he could cast a rubber foot. "He agreed,'' Sethi says, "and refused to accept any money once he found out why we were doing...
...eight yards in his first four runs, and at no point was he touched within five yards of the line of scrimmage. Clearly Jones' 4.49 second 40-yard-dash speed is a huge factor, but Jones was working with holes large enough for the proverbial Mack truck...