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...McCartney proposed on one knee with a diamond-and-sapphire ring bought in India. McCartney and Mills endured a few rough years before meeting. He admitted he contemplated suicide following wife Linda's death from breast cancer in 1998; Mills was in a freak motorcycle accident that took her leg in 1993. Together they have overcome an age difference almost vast enough to impress Robert Evans...
...looking for, they break homes and bones. It is not difficult to find people in these towns with new bullet wounds and houses that have been looted or burned in the past two months. "Things have become much worse since May," says Ummiyah, who was recently shot in the leg while tending a field near the pipeline...
...tied towels into tourniquets and used T shirts to cover the bone sticking out from the stump, slowing the loss of what little blood was left in the boy's body. Breathless but calm, Vance used his cell phone to call the 911 dispatcher, "The right arm and right leg are gone... Completely gone. He's lost a lot of blood... He wasn't breathing, and he didn't have a pulse a minute ago... We need a life helicopter out here or something like that...
That done, Rogers connected the muscle tissue. Wearing magnifying goggles, he began reattaching major nerve endings, which are just slightly thicker than an eyelash. Next, veins and arteries were reconnected. Rogers had to take some veins from Jessie's leg to replace damaged vessels in the arm. Finally, Rogers released the clamps and blood began to flow back into the arm, which he describes as "absolutely white" and very cold. Arteries and veins starved for blood for so long went into spasms as new liquid began to flow. Antispasmodics were administered, and team members massaged...
...hour after sunset on that Saturday, Lees and 28-year-old Peter Falconio, six months into the Australian leg of their round-the-world holiday, were cruising in their orange Volkswagen campervan?Falconio at the wheel?when a white four-wheel-drive pickup drew alongside. The driver gestured that he could see sparks coming from the exhaust of the campervan and, after some discussion about whether to heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees...