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...firemen reached the site following a difficult climb, while paratroopers began rappelling down ropes from hovering helicopters. One of the fire men, scouring a ravine, suddenly shouted, "There's something moving down there!" He had spotted Ochiai between the seats. She was seriously hurt, with a broken pelvis and arm fractures, but she was conscious. Next the searchers found Keiko Kawakami, 12, caught in a tree and, incredibly, suffering only cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter Mikiko, 8, who were found under debris. Both had broken bones. The two children were lifted...
...fighters in tight formation buzzed over crowned heads, proud Presidents and starchy ambassadors. From a hill overlooking the sports stadium, mounted cannons boomed out a 21-gun salute. A 500-member band, complete with bagpipes and scores of drummers, rapped out a tattoo to which more than 1,000 arm-swinging soldiers marched, filling the morning air with the anthem of Oman's Royal Guard: "We do not fear death. If Qaboos calls, we obey...
...stars. He cajoles, he flatters, but he produces. "Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line is getting the result I'm asked to give." Among his 90 or so celebrity clients: John Travolta, Arm-Margret, Christopher Reeve, Linda Evans, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Olivia Newton-John, Dyan Cannon and Billy Crystal (who presumably would not look mahvelous without...
...expectations. After being detained in the early 1970s while protesting for better treatment of Hong Kong's poor, he became an in-house adviser to the colony's British Governor in the late 1980s. Now he will have to prove he can navigate the bulky $316 billion Asia-Pacific arm of the London-based HSBC Holdings into a booming banking frontier: China. In 2001 the bank became the first foreign commercial bank to buy into a mainland counterpart since the 1949 communist takeover, and it is now the largest foreign financial institution there. But it is limited by regulation...
...suspended from boxing in 1997 for a year after he bit off a piece of opponent Evander Holyfield's ear. In his final fight, Tyson threw in the towel at the end of the sixth round, but not before head-butting McBride and trying to break his left arm. "I don't have the stomach for [boxing] anymore," Tyson said...