Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SOMETIME LAST MONDAY afternoon, Francois Nassau rested his distended belly on the floor of his father's hovel, curled one thin arm under his head, and quietly died. So silent was the boy's passing that his mother did not realize he was gone until she tried to rouse him. Francois was nine years...
...that the Coast Guard will be overwhelmed, allowing perhaps a handful of boats to make it through. If Petit-Trou's vessel is not among the fortunate few, the village, like Francois Nassau, will surely have outstripped its endurance. Perhaps then it will simply curl up, tuck an arm beneath its head, and quietly...
...brought in the padded brown envelope with the day's mail. He saw nothing unusual about the package, but when Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, opened the package, it exploded. Rushed to the hospital, Epstein lost several fingers on his right hand, broke an arm and suffered severe abdominal injuries...
Within an hour of the family's arrival at Georgetown Hospital, John Paul's grand birthday celebration has turned into a picnic in a tiny emergency-room cubicle where the boy lies with a stream of antibiotics running into his arm. Soon the Cisneroses get good news: the infection is under control, and the child can go home for the night...
...this birthday evening the puckish John Paul, waiting to gobble down take- out Chuckee Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red streak running upward and inward toward his heart. The pediatrician is called, and the verdict is wrenching: the bite appears to be infected; John Paul must go straight to the emergency room...