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...blue 1981 Toyota Corona, hurling it across the three-lane road. An improvised explosive device, intended for the patrols, had gone off just 10 feet from the car. The two men were slammed against the windshield, shattering it, and were showered by a hail of shrapnel. Salah's left arm and hand were torn to shreds below the elbow, and blood spurted from two gaping wounds in his left thigh. Both men were lacerated by shrapnel and burned. A shard of glass cut a deep gash in Abu Karam's neck. The blast also damaged a second car, with shrapnel...
...absence of any other diagnostic equipment, however, the doctors had underestimated the seriousness of the injuries to Salah's left arm. "It looks superficial, and we have stopped the blood loss," said Emad. But he was unable to see that Salah had suffered two torn nerves, damaged tendons and, most dangerous of all, two torn arteries. The only blood flow to his arm was coming from collateral circulation, from minor blood vessels and capillaries in the skin. Left in that condition, the hand would have been irreparably damaged in two or three days...
...hoping to get back for the last couple of games,” Cohen said. “My arm feels absolutely great right now, but the x-ray showed that it wasn’t ready...
...then, I have only become more aware of my good fortune. Yesterday, I was looking through some pictures from the past four years. A couple of observations: I wear a lot of navy blue shirts. I take far too many pictures of someone else and me by extending my arm out and pointing the camera toward the two of us (which, incidentally, always turn out terribly). But there is really only one important theme: my friends...
...those firms are looking abroad: Boeing, the world's top aerospace firm and the U.S.'s biggest exporter (2004 revenues: $52 billion), outsources jet components to Japan and Italy. "It's not just a clich to say the world is getting smaller," says Mark Ronald, CEO of the U.S. arm of BAE Systems...