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After Thomas’ runs, the task of scoring fell to Rose. The veteran warrior leapt over a pack of Tigers and landed hard in the end zone. Even though the Crimson had taken a 21-20 lead, Rose re-injured his shoulder and was forced to leave the game for good...
...Adam stayed calm once the relative (who in the past was nearly eaten by one of his domesticated lions) assured him that this lion was actually tame. Too bad Karin didn’t know the lion was tame. “The lion bounded up on me and leapt on me from behind, knocking me face first into the dirt and proceeding to paint my head playfully and lick my neck,” says Karin, who was anxiously expecting “teeth and pain...
...futures markets were rising before the explosion, and actually continued to creep up as the flames leapt from the tower - initial speculation on CNBC speculated that the plane crash was accidental. Then the import of the catastrophe became apparent, and the futures plunged until the trading day was called off. (The New York Stock Exchange building was unharmed, but dust and debris from the WTC collapses flew far enough to endanger anyone who stood outside.) Perhaps the only reassurance available was the news that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan was on a trip in Switzerland and safe from the concurrent destruction...
...August 13, thousands of frightened East Germans were fleeing across the flimsy boundary into free West Berlin. At 2 a.m. there were sirens, then the rumble of tanks on the East Berlin cobblestones. East German troops carrying rolls of barbed wire, concrete pillars, stone blocks, picks, and shovels leapt out of their trucks. Four hours later, millions of Berliners lived in a huge communist pen which over the next decade would be broadened and built into an automated armed fortress of steel and concrete -a fortress which stood as a monstrous rebuke to freedom...
...More than ten weeks after Levy was last seen or heard from, authorities are sure of one thing: The intern was the victim of foul play. Suicide is almost certainly out at this point. Even if she leapt from a bridge, says one agent, "You can't go jumping into the water this time of year without coming up looking like the Goodyear Blimp...