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...strength of our team truly lies in our depth,” Kaufmann said. “[Our opponents] have a few standout competitors that are very fast, but even if we’re not able to win every event, hopefully we’ll be able to get in there and get second, third, fourth again...
...Kampusch finally escaped in 2006. She was cleaning Priklopil's car in the driveway of the home when he got a phone call. While he was distracted, she dropped the vacuum cleaner and ran as fast as she could to the home of a neighbor, who then called police. Priklopil committed suicide by throwing himself under a train hours later. Three years after the ordeal ended, Kampusch has become a celebrity in Austria. The 21-year-old has hosted her own talk show and has been hounded by film crews desperate to tell her story. She reportedly bought the home...
...gunshots started soon after we crossed the rear checkpoint. They sounded like they were behind us, in the same direction as the blast from the Babylon, so we decided to make a fast break for the front entrance of the Hamra - not knowing we were headed toward danger. As we drove up to where we could see the front checkpoint, we arrived at the opening scenes of the third bombing of the day. Hotel guards were in a five-minute standoff they would lose, firing their AK-47s at a gunman on the other side of the checkpoint. My driver...
...sure she’d like a couple back, but [Bellamy] did a real good job in the third period keeping us in the game,” Stone said. “She’s got to grow up fast, and she needs to take advantage of this opportunity. You’ve got to look at it as an opportunity, you can’t look at it as a bummer...
...necessity. According to paleontological models, in prehistoric times, males were hunters who required spatial abilities when considering questions like: “How far do I have to throw my spear to kill this sumptuous dinner before me?” and “How far and how fast do I have to run back to the cave if my spear does not kill said dinner...