Word: fallen
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Opitz said that a hospital nurse told him that the sodium level in his blood was supposed to be around 135 moles per liter, but his had fallen down to just over 127 moles per liter...
...then there were the heroes. U.S. Army Captain Timothy Gittins met Wesley Autrey, the man who famously saved a stranger who had fallen onto New York City subway tracks. They acknowledged each other's bravery. "I'm just doing my job. You went above and beyond," said Gittins. "I just saved one guy. You faced enemies who had guns," Autrey responded. The evening finished with pop star John Mayer singing three stirring songs, the last one about the future of his generation...
...heavyweights ranking No. 14 in the nation and the lightweights filing in at No. 5. Both squads, in varying degrees, have struggled this dual season. The lightweights are 1-2, with its only victory coming against seventh-ranked MIT. Against the top competition this year, the team has fallen short. With losses against No. 2 Princeton and the No. 4 Hoyas on the river this year, the crew has failed to notch an elusive victory against these top squads. Yet the team only lost to Georgetown by one second and raced the Tigers closely on the Charles. With disappointment comes...
...France doing Mormon missionary work. The letter was from the father he had idolized growing up, and still does, the man he has described as "the definition of a successful human." This, however, was an epistle about failure - about the one time his father had attempted something big and fallen short...
...bigger issue. You've got to put the case for globalization in the sense that with open markets and flexibility and free trade you give people the chance to benefit from a global economy, but you've also got to show - and this is where sometimes the debate has fallen down - that you will help people get the skills and education and infrastructure to benefit from globalization. Globalization can be a force for justice on a global scale or it can be seen as the benefit going to a small section of the community at the expense of the rest...