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...race as training, easing up for the last 400 m. In that race, German Jacqueline Boerner edged teammate Niemann for the gold, completing a comeback almost as dramatic as Ye's. While training on her bike outside Berlin in August 1990, Boerner was struck -- deliberately, she claims -- by a driver behind the wheel of a Trabant, the flimsiest vehicle on four wheels. "If it had been a real car, I wouldn't be here," she can now joke. But even Trabants are tougher than bikes, and Boerner broke an ankle and tore ligaments in her knee, which sent...
When San Francisco taxi driver Holden Charles Hollom saw a mugger knock down a Japanese tourist and grab her purse, he drove off in hot pursuit and pinned the suspect against the wall with his cab, breaking...
Then they found him: a respected local businessperson whose company employed 1400 area workers, whose children went to Seattle schools, and who, unlike Argyros or Smulyan, actually possesses a Washington State driver's license. A resident for 15 years, Minoru Arakawa seemed the perfect man to head a coalition of Seattle backers...
...more serious demonstrations took place, as well. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power stationed members of their organization on street corners holding signs reading "Bush Gets Away With Murder: One AIDS Death Every Seven Minutes," and "Honk if you hate Bush." Passing drivers honked every few seconds, including at least one bus driver...
...told us if we really wanted to help, we should support the president," Petch said, adding that a White House driver and photographer were sent to record the display...