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...down to about $33,000. "I feel like a marathon runner who sees the finish line but when he gets close, his coach holds up a sign that says he has 25 more miles to go," says Costello, 61, who works for Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio. "I'm going to have to work until I die." Costello chose to work in steel mills rather than the coal mines where his father toiled because he believed steel jobs were more secure. Now he is scrapping plans to build a long-planned retirement house and says he will...
...just cut his own arm off." Authorities tried to retrieve the arm later that day, but they had no more luck moving the boulder than Ralston; the rock is said to be big enough to fill the bed of a pickup. Ralston, now hospitalized in serious condition in Grand Junction, Colo., hasn't spoken publicly of his ordeal. His family has issued a statement attributing his survival to Ralston's "strong physical and mental condition...
...chest and gut. He reached down, grabbed one RPG, and it goes off and blows his foot off. It ricochets off and comes straight at us. We cross over the intersection, and that's when I saw Larry Brown get hit." Behind Sergeant Brown, Specialist Brown had reached the junction and was met with a short burst of waist-high fire. "He fell against the wall on his left. I yelled, 'Get Brown! Cover...
Since the age of twelve, the 20-year old from Princeton Junction, New Jersey had been a slap hitter. Even though she was naturally right-handed, she batted as a left-hander. Doing so put her an extra step closer to first base after a swing and allowed her to use her speed, rather than her power, to get on base...
...class moved on to Taylor’s 1961 piece Junction, which Taylor describes as taking place “as pedestrians cross at the intersection of Tranquility Street and Turmoil Boulevard...