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...fully enjoyed, owing to the deep anxieties surrounding Hong Kong's return to China in 1997). The book nears conclusion with Moss's eventual appointment as department head and it also-in a marvelous final twist-relates a fall of sorts. During his career, Moss kept his employer at arm's length not only emotionally but contractually, turning down opportunities to join the government's "permanent and pensionable establishment" in favor of remaining on ad hoc terms. This meant that he retired, at 58, without the comfortable pension that a long-serving official could expect. Neither had he saved...
...Everything happened in a blur,” he recalled. He recounted that after he greeted a male friend with a “hug and a kiss on the cheek” and “putting [his] arm around [his friend],” the defendants began yelling “faggots, faggots” at him outside the window of their...
...after seeing her. He approached and confronted her, according to the report, for bringing a date to the party, “standing very close” and “in a threatening manner.” According to the police report, he grabbed her by the arm and began crying, until others removed him from the party...
Despite occasional disasters, however, I was adjusting to a fake arm--thanks to certain modifications by prosthetist John Miguelez's team. Ralph had bit the dust, replaced by a more tapered, slightly lighter shell made of carbon fiber and acrylic resin. The modifications improved my range of motion and wardrobe--I could now button a dress shirt. But I was hardly wearing a second skin. The rigid shell chafed my forearm and got so hot in the summer that sweat dripped out of a small hole used...
Before Iraq, the technology of arm prostheses hadn't changed much since World War II. The tiny population of amputees created little market incentive. Miguelez used the burst in demand from Walter Reed to lean on manufacturers for progress. Before long, he was outfitting Iraq war amputees with an electronic hand that opened and closed 2 1/2 times faster and could be programmed to function at different speeds and grip strength...