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...local military. But when the fighting ended several hours later, things had gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot-out, but about two dozen others, including the group's leader, Abu Sabaya, escaped back into the jungle that has so successfully shielded them for years...
...writer. Kerrey's memoir of his early life, When I Was a Young Man (Harcourt; 270 pages), covers the period from his birth in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1943 to his return there at the end of 1969. He came home with a prosthesis on his right leg, which had been shattered in a fire fight in Vietnam. When I Was a Young Man is an astonishing, wonderful book. It has a few false notes; there is a bit too much Nebraska boosterism, and at least one inaccuracy?the village of Caythorpe, England, where Kerrey's great-grandfather was born...
...more elbow room in the cabin. "Come back and look at this," he says eagerly, pointing out that 9 of every 10 seats on the new 767 are on an aisle or a window. "We found out customers would rather have an empty center seat" than have more leg room, he says, "so our seats are not as far apart" as those of some competitors...
...local military. But when the fighting ended several hours later, things had gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot-out, but about two dozen others, including the group's leader, Abu Sabaya, escaped back into the jungle that has so successfully shielded them for years...
...Lewis, the Englishman/Canadian who has been renting a mansion in East Memphis and working out every day at the high-society Racquet Club, seems to have recovered from that bite in the leg. But this week, he held his tongue when reporters asked whether he nursed any anxieties about Tyson clamping down on him again. He knew better than to answer. After all, it was Tyson's errant teeth and bite in the thigh that brought the boxers and the world of boxing to Memphis. That bite led Las Vegas to forbid Cannibal Mike from fighting at the key venues...