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With all that weighing on his mind, responsibility demanded not only that Summers share in our mourning, but also that he secure the Harvard campuses and coordinate the University’s response. Summers carried out those responsibilities with admirable sensitivity. His insistence that fear not bleed into hate—that diversity be protected to the utmost—is a tribute to the power of principles at this institution. Moreover, his efforts to encourage donations and provide financial relief to the victims—including the University’s $1 million contribution to scholarships for the victims?...
...There is a sudden commotion. A wizened Afghan in rags has stopped pulling his cart and is banging his head on the ground so hard that it has begun to bleed. "Allah, I surrender!" he wails, "If you don't let me pass, I'll earn no money. I'd rather die than go back empty-handed to my starving children." The display of self-mortification works; the Pakistanis gently dust off the bleeding old man and let him through, which provokes a wave of fierce clamoring and shoving among the other Afghans crowding the border. They are all just...
...nurse Dawn Colbert inserted an IV into his arm and began a rapid infusion of O-negative blood, the universal-donor type. Within 15 minutes, Colbert pumped nearly 1.5 liters of warmed blood into Jessie, about half the normal volume for an 80-lb. boy. Jessie began to bleed. But his heart still wasn't beating on its own. Twice the team stopped CPR, waiting for Jessie's heart to pump on its own. No pulse. Nurse Sandi Miller, who was keeping watch for the arrival of the arm, prayed under her breath as the team continued CPR, then paused...
Five minutes, 10, 15. No response in the arm. "We were nursing this for about 30 minutes," Rogers says. "Then, all of a sudden, all the little cuts in his forearm started to bleed, and we could hear pulses in the arteries." The trickiest part, the doctors say, was stitching the skin back. "It was like putting a jigsaw puzzle together," says De Campos. After 12 hours in surgery, they wheeled him into the recovery room. They could only wait and see if he would survive...
...Distances are almost unimaginable to outsiders: once a week Pilton makes a 570-km round trip just to go to the bank, or for a haircut. Roads run in numbingly straight lines, up to 30 km without a bend, their ends shimmering and liquefying in optical illusions as they bleed into the sky; families live on remote cattle properties, hundreds of kilometers from their nearest neighbors. As a result, country friendliness here extends to a code of mutual assistance on the road. Vehicles take such a pounding that breakdowns are common. Stranded travelers are not strangers to these folk...