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Vincent Humbert believed he should have died on Sept. 24, 2000, the day he lost control of his car after his tire blew out, and ended up underneath an oncoming truck in the Normandy countryside. "[Death] most probably reached out her arms, seeing me in agony, and said to me, 'Let's go, come, come, it is over ... '" he wrote in his autobiography. Instead, the French fireman, then 19, was wrenched back to life again and again by doctors, machines and good intentions. After nine months in a coma and 15 more as a mute, nearly blind quadriplegic (he wrote...
...tragedy is that they succeeded, that they did convince Israelis to make peace with the [Palestinian Liberation Organization],” he said. “The other tragedy is that it literally blew up in our faces...
...several seconds after the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) drilled through the back of their armored M113 "battle taxi," the soldiers inside, mainlining adrenaline, continued firing. Then they started screaming. "It blew my leg clean off," says Private First Class Tristan Wyatt, who was standing at the rear of the armored personnel carrier (APC), unloading an M-240 machine gun at a dozen or more Iraqis who had ambushed them minutes before. He was the first to be hit. The RPG then passed through Sergeant Erick Castro's hip, spinning him violently to the floor. His left leg was still attached...
...nearby reservoir. The body of one of their neighbors was found inside his charred RV, along with the remains of his four Irish wolfhounds. In Wynola, 40 miles northeast of San Diego, a fire fighter trying to save a house died when a freak turn of wind blew the fire in his direction; the colleague who tried to save him sustained burns over 20% of his body. Some people were luckier. A couple in Lake View Hills Estates rode out the fire by diving into their swimming pool as the windows of their house exploded around them...
...hearing Chomsky speak for the first time was a life-changing experience. His ability to take preconceptions and destroy them—to completely remodel one’s understanding of reality with cold, hard facts—blew me away. When I left what was then the ARCO Forum last fall, I felt as though I had been through the Matrix and back. Chomsky really has this effect because he bombards you with evidence and logic, not empty rhetoric. It is nearly impossible to hear him or read him—once you’ve actually checked...