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Corbett, who did all the promotional posters and pins for Butte's annual Evel Knievel Days each summer, said Knievel was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis that hardened the lungs. "When you spoke with him, it was an effort for him to finish a sentence without taking another breath. But he faithfully came to Evel Knievel Days, even though the severe altitude change, from sea level to mile-high, was especially hard on him. But he was tough...
...relative calm restored to the housing projects of Villiers-le-Bel lessened fears France might be experiencing the same kind of outbreak of violence in Paris's "banlieues" which spread to over 300 French towns in 2005, there was one reason for jittery French observers to hold their breath. Just as there were signs of cooling tempers among rioting youths, French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that he planned to hunt them down and haul them to court. His first move was to visit police officers injured by rioters, promising "we'll find the shooters, and deploy whatever means that requires...
...there was nothing ambiguous about the deaths of people who were remembered last night. The assembly, their breath rising into the cold night as clouds of steam, read aloud the names of 11 people who have died since January, some of whom had been shot, stabbed, strangled, or struck repeatedly by a car. Two died after they were denied medication for AIDS...
...switches to zone, and force HC intoa tough three, but, once again, they fail to get two rebound. New possession for Crusaders up 30-20. 5:01: Good D from Miller, gets jumpball, but no change of possession. 4:50: Holy Cross' second three of the game takes the breath out of Harvard, Magnerellimisses bunny, and it's a 15-point game just like that. 35-20 after fadeaway jumpshot from HC. 3:30: Baan now has 14, but Magnerelli counters with Harvard's first offensive rebound of the night and putback, 37-24. 2:20: Housman...
...tell you space missions produce spin-offs," says Pillinger. But, in reality, they yield few applications in everyday industry. With portable GCMS, "Everywhere we go, people say, 'I can see an application for it.'" Indeed, Morgan and his team are now building GCMS units to test for drugs in breath samples, bladder cancer in urine samples, pollutants in reservoir water, and more. And Pillinger? He's cut back on work since being diagnosed in 2005 with progressive multiple sclerosis. But his eyes have never left the sky. "I still want to be the person who finds life on Mars...