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...helicopters, which began scouring Nias for badly injured survivors and ferrying them to the ship's hospital for treatment. On the afternoon of Apr. 2, one of those helicopters crashed into a football field near the remote Nias village of Aman Draya, killing six naval and three air-force personnel. Two of the dead were women. Two male survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage and airlifted to the Kanimbla. Witnesses told abc-TV that the helicopter's engine failed 30 m above the ground. "This is really quite heartbreaking," said Prime Minister John Howard of his country's worst...
...Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. That remarkable statistic is due in part to the doctors and nurses at Landstuhl, who've transformed what was once a sleepy military hospital into a top-line trauma center. As of last week, just over 1,510 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,344 had been wounded. The Pentagon does not keep count of dead or wounded Iraqis. Human-rights groups and Iraqi health officials have tried to estimate the number of Iraqi deaths, but the figures vary wildly, between...
...curricula and making their own own curricula and making their own personnel and budget decisions...
...Fowler-Finn] basically is saying that most of his costs are fixed. This is not true. Most of your costs are personnel costs,” Peterson says. “The percentage of children leaving the district to go to charter schools is a trivial number compared to the changes in demography every year...
...that their armor could not protect them and the doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. As of last week, just over 1,500 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,285 had been wounded. The Pentagon does not keep counts of dead or wounded Iraqis. Human-rights groups and academics have tried to estimate the number of Iraqi deaths, speculating it could range from 15,000 to 100,000. No one has even tried...