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Ralph didn't work any better than he looked. The thumb and first two fingers opened and closed like a claw, the grossest of motor skills. The third finger and pinkie, which are employed by natural hands to carry things, were frozen. Ralph's wrist didn't bend. Despite weeks of training on a computer, I had difficulty with the basic functions: my stronger outer forearm muscle kept flexing and involuntarily opening the hand--even when I was trying to close it. I had no more success with the mechanism to rotate the wrist. The simultaneous contraction of both muscles...
...motor buzzed louder, so did they. I was reporting for the summer at a newspaper near Tampa. Jacqui reached into a paper bag and gave me her last sticky caramel. I asked her why a tattoo circled her right wrist.“It’s a bear claw,” she said. “For strength.”I looked at Chris’ arm. He had a Jesus fish.Shrimping is a notoriously dangerous job. Shrimpers like Chris and Jacqui gamble their lives each night in the Gulf of Mexico, where they must avoid invisible...
...tough New YorkCity cop, Francis X. Loughlin has a knack for getting bad guys to give it up in front of the one-way mirror. Julian Vega was 17 and "as fragile as an egg in a carton" when Loughlin nailed him for the claw-hammer murder of a young doctor. Twenty years later, Julian, now prison hardened, has been freed on a technicality and is bent on proving he didn't do it. Loughlin is equally convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre...
Despite the challenges, Kimberlin makes clear that Panasonic will do whatever it takes to claw up the market. "Our plan is to keep doubling our advertising investment year over year. We are looking to be very, very aggressive," he says. It will have to be. Last year Panasonic spent $5 million to $10 million on advertising--peanuts compared with the $77 million that Duracell spent...
...deal with or fund a government led by Hamas, or even allow the transfer of funds from friendly Arab neighbors, the U.S. and the European Union have added to a morass of problems that have plunged the entire Palestinian Authority into crisis and given Fatah an opportunity to claw its way back into power - principally, for now, by sparking a conflict over the control and make-up of the Palestinian security forces...