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Zooming to and from scenes of murder and mayhem, the medics swap anecdotes of their ordeals. Last year, recalls medical student Juan Carlos Saavedra, 24, a group of gunmen held up an ambulance, smacked around the medics and shot their patient dead on his stretcher--finishing off a victim who had survived an earlier hit. "One bullet was shot right next to the oxygen tank. If it had been a bit closer, the whole ambulance would have exploded," he says, miming the shooting with his fingers. Masked gunmen have also stormed into city hospitals to send the wounded on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Culiacán | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

Four months earlier, the medics had raced to the scene of a shooting, only to find the victim dead from blood loss, ripped apart by bullets from an AK-47. After an initial review, they left the scene--unaware that the dead man clutched an unpinned grenade beneath him, an explosive the military later defused. "If the medics had just moved the body a little, the grenade could have exploded," says ambulance chief González. "Not even a bulletproof jacket could save them from that. The only way we are going to be safer is if this violence calms down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Culiacán | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...much as actors love doing it. That's one reason Mickey should be a guest of honor at the year-end critics' awards dinners. Another is that Rourke's bio blends with the story of The Wrestler, but with a happier ending. His career has come back from the dead; any award would be like a posthumous prize to someone who is, miraculously, still around to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...Shabaab have all but surrounded Mogadishu and appear poised to launch a new offensive at any time. The transitional government of President Yusuf, set up and backed by Ethiopian troops, has been confined to the town of Baidoa and a tiny wedge of Mogadishu. And the transitional administration seems dead set on emphasizing its transitoriness with infighting. Yusuf's firing of Hussein was dubious at best because the government's charter states that the President needs parliament's approval for such a move. Indeed, the parliament returned to back Hussein by a vote of 143-20. A spokesman for Yusuf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia: Warlords, Pirates and the Politics of Morass | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...know the kind of guy I am. If I got a problem with you, I'm in your face." - on why he possibly couldn't have ordered someone to put a dead fish and rose on Anita Busch's car (The Los Angeles Times, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthony Pellicano | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

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