Word: legging
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...Weisskopf's right arm; when he holds it up, he realizes the grenade has blown off his hand. Specialist Billie Grimes, a medic attached to the platoon, sprints out of the third humvee and hoists herself onto the high-back. She uses a Velcro strap tied to her pant leg as a tourniquet to stop Weisskopf's bleeding and applies a field dressing to the wound while loudly asking the three other passengers if they are injured. Nachtwey, who has taken shrapnel in his left arm, abdomen and both legs, briefly snaps pictures of Grimes treating Weisskopf before losing consciousness...
...says. Hardest of all is watching soldier-homecoming scenes. "It makes me cry," she says, smiling. "I turn it off. It doesn't seem fair." As Christmas approached, she and her sons flew to Tallahassee, Fla., to be with her parents. Sitting next to her on the first leg of the flight, across the Atlantic, was her friend Rochelle, pulling guard duty. --By Amanda Ripley/Giessen
...news comes two years after then-freshman Noah Welch missed the 2002 tournament because of a leg injury...
...sealed to preserve order and economic well-being, and others arguing that immigrants are inevitable and must be integrated into society. As this debate rages, the voices of the arriving immigrants like Abdi Salan are rarely heard. For many, the treacherous voyage across the Mediterranean is just the final leg of a months-long journey during which they risk their lives - at the hands of crooked smugglers, in the backs of suffocating trucks, on the decks of leaking fishing boats - to reach Europe. Abdi Salan crossed Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya and the Mediterranean before touching Italian territory. His journey started...
Reese is the 18th Crimson player to be selected to the U.S. Junior National Team. Most recently, junior defenseman Noah Welch was picked as a freshman in 2001. But Brett Nowak ’03 was the last to participate, since Welch missed the tournament because of a leg injury...