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...actually managed to obey the rules that week. Go to the mall or a concert or a restaurant and you can find them in the wild, the kids who have never been told no, whose sense of power and entitlement leaves onlookers breathless, the sand-kicking, foot-stomping, arm-twisting, wheedling, whining despots whose parents presumably deserve the company of the monsters they, after all, created...
...Iceman, they concluded, was shot from below. The arrow entered his body and paralyzed his arm. Though major organs were spared, major vessels were not. If an artery was severed, the hunter could have bled out in five minutes. If a vein was cut, he may have lingered for six frigid hours...
...dangling behind them. Jessie responds to pain stimuli, and his eyes are open. But his parents are not sure he can see them. At his bedside, they talk to him about Digimon cartoons and other things he enjoys. The parents were there when De Campos moved Jessie's reattached arm to make him more comfortable, and the boy moved it back. They were there when he wiggled his hand. "They continue to view every small step as a very positive sign of hope," says Sister Jean Rhoads of Sacred Heart Children's Hospital, where the boy has been transferred. Rogers...
...most-favored-nation" clause, which requires member airlines to offer Orbitz every low fare they negotiate with others. Expedia vice president Eric Blachford says that clause gives Orbitz an unfair advantage. CEO Jeffrey Katz insists that Orbitz, which is a separate corporation, won those stipulations fair and square through arm's-length negotiations and technology that reduces booking costs. "Orbitz is operating completely within the law," he says...
...many times this week had he gone to see the dragon? Five? Six? Ten? Fitz had lost count. But he reckoned he went to the den almost every night and paid Ton, the scraggly opium dealer with a green-and-blue dragon tattooed on his thin upper arm, 50 per pipe to get him off. He lay there, watching the dragon coil and uncoil as Ton flexed his arms, working to heat the night-colored opium, mixing the paste with Mr. Headache powder and then rolling it between his palms into cylinders. He broke off pieces from the roll...