Word: midnighters
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...booby-trapped artillery shell detonated shortly before midnight. In the roar and smoke, bodies ripped apart. Suddenly the nine-man foot patrol from Task Force 1/9, composed of infantrymen and cavalry troopers, was down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier was dead. Three others lay bleeding but still alive as fire from AK-47s rained down on the scrambling troopers. Company commander Captain Thomas Foley hollered orders above the din, desperately trying to stave off the attack while getting some kind of aid to his wounded men. One had lost...
...midnight fire fight on May 19, which killed one member of Task Force 1/9 and wounded three, was a foreshadowing of even more bold insurgent attacks. On the morning of July 7, a 100-person company of Iraqi National Guardsmen ventured onto Haifa Street to set up checkpoints. Almost immediately, they came under fire from the concrete forest of towering Soviet-style apartment blocks that line the wide, four-lane boulevard. After 50 minutes, Task Force 1/9 headed toward Haifa Street to evacuate the Iraqi troops. As a platoon moved toward a former palace of Saddam Hussein...
...realize how undervalued our profession is," says Dr. Philippe Cuq, a vascular surgeon from Toulouse who heads Surgeons of France, the 3,000-member organization behind the protest. "Young doctors aren't going into surgery. Why should they when they can earn twice as much working as radiologists, without midnight emergency calls and malpractice lawsuits?" The surgeons' immediate complaint is about money. Cuq says that while rates for general practitioners have generally kept pace with inflation, government-mandated reimbursements for surgical procedures haven't changed in the last 15 years. "For a standard operation to remove varicose veins, a French...
WEST COAST, New Zealand—It was almost midnight and I started to doubt the directions I got from the man in the pub. There were no stars, and in my car, I was enveloped in total darkness except for the small patch of road illuminated by my headlights. My rear-view mirror led to an empty black void as if the back half of my car had all of a sudden merged with the night. There are good reasons for driving alone at this hour. But attempting to locate a cell phone signal that may not even exist...
...Well, not quite. Corney is giving each an overhaul. For Syrup, the new look will be "sexy '70s ski lodge, warm and luscious," according to designer Kate Dunn from Sydney's Enigami Architecture. Meanwhile, a bracing dash of Futurism has already transformed Round Midnight from beery rock venue to cool dance club. Despite its compactness (it holds only about 300 bopping bodies), it has hosted superstar DJs like the U.K.'s Adam Freeland and James Holden-guys used to playing to crowds of 20,000, but who still find time to travel down to Tassie's little...