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...January to assist the local military. But when the fighting ended several hours later, things had gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot-out, but about two dozen others, including the group's leader, Abu Sabaya, escaped back into the jungle that has so successfully shielded...
...score, another unsung hero, senior linebacker Eric LaHaie, tackled running back Cameron Atkinson in the backfield and forced the potential game-winning field goal attempt back a few yards. The 49-yard attempt from Tiger kicker Taylor Northrup sailed just wide left as Harvard won 28-26, dodging another bullet on its march to a perfect season...
...while it's tempting to think that ghrelin is a magic bullet that could be used to keep us all at a perfect weight, doctors think that's highly unlikely. Similar hopes were raised a few years ago for leptin, a hormone that acts as an appetite suppressant. After years of trying, nobody has found a way to make it into a useful medication, largely because patients quickly develop a leptin tolerance...
Radio technology and medical know-how came together most dramatically in April 2000. Pirates had boarded the sailboat of a Dutch family off the coast of Honduras and had shot a 13-year-old boy who was aboard. His injuries were so severe that the bullet severed his spinal cord and paralyzed...
...turned out that Uncle Sam did want the lightning quick 150-pound tailback, who was famous for his bullet-like passes—which were said to come at receivers so hard that coaches asked him to ease up when he first joined the Crimson squad...