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...FERDINAND, 23, ENGLAND In 2000, Ferdinand was sold to the English Premier League club Leeds United from West Ham United for a record $26 million, yet the defender was still a relative unknown when he arrived at World Cup 2002. Not any more. His lithe movement and pinpoint tackling earned him plaudits as one of the players of the tournament. His kind of authority at the back lends itself to any scheme of play. Manchester United has put in a bid for as much as $53 million. VALUE: $53 million, up from $26 million...
...cardiologist with a penchant for ham radio employs his hobby to save the life of a person who was shot by pirates while at sea in the Caribbean...
...boy’s father, seeing his son’s critical state, put out a call for help over ham radio. For nine hours, Hirschman used the radio to instruct the father how to provide medical assistance—aid that helped bring the boy back from the brink of death...
...Aceh's one main road welcome the TNI as an antidote to rampaging police units. But off the road, in benighted hamlets, little has changed. "Most TNI still behave the same way?brutally," says Fitri, a 22-year-old volunteer with Care Human Rights Forum, known locally as FP HAM. Fitri produces half a dozen photo albums?the kind with cutesy cartoon bunnies on the cover?filled with shots of dead civilians, many showing signs of torture or execution-style killing. Merely collecting such evidence is increasingly perilous. The New York City-based Human Rights Watch claims humanitarian workers...
...defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets him apart from the field—look at Friends of Cornel like P. Diddy and Mumia Abu-Jamal. That Summers chose to begin cleaning house with West might have been ham-handed and politically inept, but it wasn’t inconsistent or, God help us, racist...