Word: dispatched
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...Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb can dispatch a burn team to Landstuhl to bring the soldier back to the Army's specialized facility in Texas. "He's here 24 hours after being wounded," he says with amazement. Landstuhl is now a crucial stop-off point, where the details of each injury are compiled in a dossier that...
...publishing on the Internet has its risks, as Brock Meeks learned. Meeks, a reporter by day for Communications Daily in Washington, by night publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued...
Despite her team’s easy dispatch of an overmatched Clarkson squad in a sweep of the ECAC quarterfinals, Harvard coach Katey Stone worried that her team wavered from the style of play that had earned it the top seed in the conference tournament and led to a nation-leading 17-game unbeaten streak...
...from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Girls in Kiev and Moscow are lured by traffickers with promises of jobs in America as models and actresses, but are instead taken to camps in Mexico where they are “broken in.” In Mexico, organized associations of pimps dispatch men to date and seduce local girls. One of these men will offer promises of marriage or an American visa, but will actually kidnap the girl, drug and beat her, and keep her in captivity at a ‘training’ camp...
...around thanks to the efforts of guard Colin Davis, who scored six straight points for the Lions, including a tip-in with 3:26 left that trimmed the lead to 65-60. Harvard did not make a field goal for the remainder of the contest, but was able to dispatch Columbia by hitting 13-of-16 free throws in the game’s final three minutes. Junior forward Matt Stehle, who tallied 16 points and a game high 12 rebounds, and junior guard Michael Beal, who came off the bench for nine points, six boards and four assists, each...