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...fallen soldiers. Tight money and high casualties soon forced Iraq to cancel that order after about 2,000 cars were delivered; Saddam later substituted Volkswagens and other inexpensive cars. Moreover, the Iraqi treasury pledged to pay $40,000 to any man who married a war widow. For the bravest survivors, Saddam ordered 150 ceremonial swords (price: up to $50,000 each), crafted in a small village in Tuscany. Last year the Italian goldsmiths may have got an early tip about the dictator's plans when Iraq placed an order for 100 fancy sabers. Twenty were delivered just four days before...
...Bravest New Surgery Medical science, which can do remarkable things to repair the human body, took a giant step by daring to tinker with the original blueprint. In the first authorized use of gene therapy, a four-year-old girl with a rare and deadly enzyme deficiency received genetically engineered cells that could control her illness. So far, she is doing well, and scientists hope eventually to treat other illnesses the same...
That is why New York was for more than two centuries -- and still is -- a beacon for the best, brightest and bravest people from all over the U.S. and all around the world. They come to test themselves against the toughest competition, to make a buck, to reinvent lives that seem stale in any other setting. As the song that has become the city's unofficial anthem puts it, "If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere...
Until recently, the battalions of Marxism seemed to have the upper hand over the soldiers of the Cross. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin had pledged toleration but delivered terror. "Russia turned crimson with the blood of martyrs," says Father Gleb Yakunin, Russian Orthodoxy's bravest agitator for religious freedom. In the Bolsheviks' first five years in power, 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were cut down by the red sickle. Stalin greatly accelerated the terror, and by the end of Khrushchev's rule, liquidations of clergy reached an estimated 50,000. After World...
...first time, but I do know how we did it. A few friends and I went to a little store on the ground floor of the run-down Commodore Hotel, stood on the street corner and stopped shady looking people as they walked by. "Excuse me," the bravest of us asked politely, "would you mind going in and buying us some beer...