Word: armfuls
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...shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style, spreading the virulence around the globe. There's "one firearm for every 12 people on the planet," Yuri says. "The only question is, How do we arm the other...
...senior will add punt return duties to his resume while further honing his talents at wide receiver. But Byrnes is itching to test his arm once again...
While playing with the Oahu Paddlers in the Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League, the senior pitcher drew the attention of scouts on the strength of his rejuvenated right arm. In the past, the Rutherford, N.J. native had suffered from tendinitis at the ulnar nerve, hindering both his health and velocity...
...continue his studies in 1937, as anti-Jewish laws were making life difficult for the Caros in Berlin. Henny escaped to London two years later, but her mother and sister died in concentration camps in 1943. Shanti, meanwhile, joined the British army as a dentist and lost his arm at the battle of Monte Cassino. After the war he married Henny and, astonishingly, took up dentistry again. So what? a reader might ask. "I wasn't sure there would be any interest in this story," Seth confides from the office of his London publisher. "My mother asked me to interview...
...Both Buckley and her co-crew chief, Staff Sgt. James Ryba, 29, have seen duty in Iraq and said this mission was a shot in the arm for them. "In Iraq I'm doing a job, but here it's more emotional because it feels like you're helping family," said Ryba. Said Buckley, "I know a lot of people have problems with the war in Iraq, and that it's dividing the country. So I'm excited about doing this because it's something that has the potential of uniting people for a change...