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...coffee at a popular Mogadishu cafe last fall when the four gunmen approached him. They demanded he get in their waiting car, and when he refused, one of the men raised a G-3 assault rifle to his shoulder and pumped nine bullets into the general's head and chest. Talan had recently been given the job of disarming the thousands of militiamen who still control large swaths of this Horn of Africa country. The bullets that killed him were a blunt message from the warlords to Somalia's new government: You control nothing; take us on at your...
...case of a heart attack, standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure calls for alternating mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with carefully counted chest compressions. A study of emergency medical technicians demonstrated, however, that chest compressions alone may be enough. Survival rates of heart-attack victims were the same whether they were given CPR or chest compressions alone...
...when Dominic Moore emerged from the penalty box and set up Capouch with the Crimson's third and final goal of the night. A shorthanded tally, Moore wheeled down the ice and took a hard slapshot on goaltender Colin Zulianello. The high rebound bounced off Capouch's chest and into the net, making...
...film companies had money to burn, and most of that found its way to California. Last year 12 relatively unknown German film-distribution and production companies tossed their shares out onto the local stock market and reeled in more than $3 billion in IPO capital. They used that war chest to gobble up strategic chunks of the worldwide filmmaking and distribution industry, and many of those chunks are shriveling rapidly. Companies with names like Intertainment and Helkon Media ran rings around established German players like Kirch Media and Bertelsmann, which, perhaps wisely, stayed out of the fray. An additional...
...moment the light went off in the small room in Fenghuo village, Wu Fang knew something terrible was going to happen to her. Three women from the village rushed in, knocked Wu Fang to the floor and began stripping her. Then her husband threw sulfuric acid on her face, chest and thighs. She let out a long cry. The women held her down, spreading acid over her face and breasts, disfiguring her horribly for the rest of her life. Twelve years later, she still seeks words for the pain: "It was like being thrown into the sky and hurled around...