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...emergency medical technician, was heading into Manhattan in her ambulance. She was among the first EMTs to arrive in front of the south tower. Then hell descended, and March ran. "I noticed that the debris was picking people up and slamming them into buildings. So I grabbed a pole and held on for dear life," even as the oddments of a skyscraper struck her. "I told God, 'I'm not dying today,' so I held on no matter how many bricks were hitting me. I felt ash go down my throat, so I made myself vomit because it was asphyxiating...
Explorers' reputations are notoriously volatile things. But no one has had quite the ups and downs of Robert Falcon Scott, the British naval officer who lost the race to the South Pole in 1911 and froze to death on his way home...
LOSER Norwegian Roald Amundsen beats Scott to the pole on Dec. 14, 1911. Scott makes it there a month later...
Dragila and her international rivals, such as Russia's Svetlana Feofanova and Australia's Tatiana Grigorieva, have brought unprecedented attention to the competition. The pole vault combines speed, strength and the very real threat of serious injury, and fans have proved eager to see women compete. "The women's pole vault is the one event that has really captured the public's imagination," says Garry Hill, editor of Track & Field News. "It has livened up track and field...
...recognized as the best there is. His emphatic Aug. 19 win in the Hungarian Grand Prix gave him a fourth Formula One drivers' championship and tied Alain Prost's career record of 51 race victories. Schumacher had a good weekend. He had set the best time in practice, bagged pole position on the grid by more than half a second over his championship rival, McLaren driver David Coulthard, and led the race from start to finish. After the race Coulthard congratulated Schumacher and jokingly recommended "that he take a holiday for the last four Grands Prix." Persuading Schumacher to take...