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...dirt his men find a long, half-buried wire. It leads in one direction to where the humvees are parked, and in the other, up a rough slope. Sergeant Allen Grenz begins following the wire. As he crests the hill, Grenz spots a rustle in underbrush. Crouched under a pine are three enemy fighters. It clicks in Grenz's brain that the wire, a blast cable, is leading straight up to the enemy. (Later the soldiers find that the wire was set to detonate five antitank mines buried under the humvees.) Grenz quickly absorbs the danger: one of the fighters...
Suddenly, a northern ridge on the Pakistani side erupts in gunfire. Then from the south, inexplicably, a Pakistani militia unit occupying a border outpost on the hillside unleashes five rocket-propelled grenades at Grenz and his men. The Pakistanis are supposed to be helping the Americans. It's something the Americans will puzzle over later, when the fighting stops. "There were about 20 muzzle fires on the northern ridge," Captain Craig Mullaney later recalls. One was a sniper, who, from a distance of 600 yds., hits Private First Class Evan O'Neill, 19, twice precisely below his flak jacket, shearing...
...pressured to save doomed construction firm Philipp Holzmann. Facing troubles of their own, Germany's private-sector banks are now defiant about preserving dying companies in amber. Only state-controlled banks ponied up this time. The second thing that may make this rescue different is that MobilCom CEO Thorsten Grenz outlined a restructuring that could make it work, including slashing 3G and a third of the workforce. "The loan was put together in a panic," says Ovum chief analyst Julian Hewett, "but they've got businesses that can survive if they completely give up on the 3G idea." Of course...
...feels the way Jack feels," explains Fieger. "Her firm conviction ((is)) that human beings who are suffering have rights over their bodies." Last Thursday, Kevorkian assisted two more suicides, bringing his total to 15, and Janus was present. This time Kevorkian had a fellow physician on hand: Dr. Susan Grenz, a specialist in internal medicine from Palm Harbor, Florida, and sister of one of the suicides...
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