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...this time, Karim the driver was melting down. His behavior was so irrational that I feared he could get us into even deeper trouble. When a local villager negotiated a pass through the combat area for a group of press cars, Karim deliberately made us miss the convoy by slowly, slowly unscrewing the car's number plate. The Arabs would not like the plate, he muttered - incomprehensible, as the previous day he said we had Baghdad plates, perfect for this part of the country. Removing the plates was, in itself, a dangerous act given the inflamed situation. The tribesmen could...
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad. Though the details of that night and the following days remain hazy, at least five of the soldiers...
DIED. ARTHUR GUYTON, 83, eminent cardiovascular physiologist; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Jackson, Miss. While recovering from polio in 1947, he invented a special leg brace and an electric wheelchair. Later he wrote The Textbook of Medical Physiology, first published in 1956 and a best seller ever since...
...Wallace hurried down the line and forced the first baseman to miss the throw,” Walsh said. “That was a big play in the game...
...Templars cultivated vineyards on the hill - a practice revived by the local horticultural office in 1968. At the bottom of the hill follow Kreuzbergstrasse east, until you come to Bergmannstrasse with its Cassata boutique and Logo used records store. If you prefer outdoor markets and health food, don't miss the bio-market at Chamissoplatz on Saturday mornings, just two streets south of Bergmannstrasse. Lined by beautiful stucco buildings, this square sports a dozen dainty stalls that offer organic vegetables, cheese, bread and meat. When you've had your fill of goat's cheese or muesli, hop on the underground...