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...likes to boast about its internal market of 450 million consumers, but when it comes to the service sector - which accounts for 70% of the European economy - life is anything but a bed of roses. More than a decade ago, the E.U. knocked down the major barriers impeding the free movement of goods, but a patchwork of local legislation and practices continues to hinder the movement of services. From accountants, lawyers and realtors to hairdressers, midwives and plumbers, those who try to offer services outside their home country risk being strangled by red tape...
...torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked his chest; his life was saved by his bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that, I was a train wreck, dumbfounded," he says, weeping softly in his four-bed hospital room. In many rooms along these long hospital corridors, soldiers tell similar tales of grief and pain. Across the hall, Sergeant Chris Chilles, 28, a California National Guardsman, says he was standing in the gun turret of his Humvee near Mosul a few mornings before, thinking about the Philadelphia...
...some 80 were injured while pinned down in a hostile corner of the capital, Mogadishu, with no way out. Just two days earlier, a U.S. medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with a planeload of injured servicemen, leaving behind a skeleton staff in the 40-bed battlefield hospital. "There was no system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries...
...last saw the child, while the Lindberghs were at dinner, and the time when the child's father sat down at his desk--probably less than an hour. Mrs. Lindbergh, who went upstairs after dining, was bathing in a bathroom separated by only one wall from her baby's bed, empty but still warm...
Whereas in the Kafka original, Gregor Samsa wakes up in the body of a “monstrous vermin,” Auslander’s character, an 18 year-old Lubavitcher yeshiva student named Motty Aranson, finds himself “transformed in his bed into a very large goy.” Motty’s struggle to come to terms with his “burly construction worker” body reaches its humorous high point when he unzips his jeans and exclaims, “So that’s a foreskin...