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...several seconds after the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) drilled through the back of their armored M113 "battle taxi," the soldiers inside, mainlining adrenaline, continued firing. Then they started screaming. "It blew my leg clean off," says Private First Class Tristan Wyatt, who was standing at the rear of the armored personnel carrier (APC), unloading an M-240 machine gun at a dozen or more Iraqis who had ambushed them minutes before. He was the first to be hit. The RPG then passed through Sergeant Erick Castro's hip, spinning him violently to the floor. His left leg was still attached...
...said nothing on the walk across the parking lot to Newman's Volkswagen, the rear seat of which had been removed to accommodate a small block Ford V-8. After we got rolling, we discussed what we had just heard and decided that it would be better to devise a plan of our own: So it was decided that we would split the "brainstorming" responsibilities. Hotch would do the legwork and Paul would put up the $40,000 seed money. By the time we were on the open road, traveling at Newman's usual 90 mph pace, we both felt...
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean—the frontrunner in most current polls—said he knew he was the in the lead when he had to pick out buckshot from his rear-end, while Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., who aimed strong criticism at Dean’s gun control policies, said that when he hunts he always eats everything he shoots...
...efforts were not detected, he finally stowed the items in the lavatories of two Southwest Airlines jets and on Sept. 15 sent federal authorities an email alerting them and identifying himself as the culprit. No one listened. It took a pilot's complaint about a toilet in the rear of a plane for workers to discover the items, which had sat undetected for five weeks...
...named an all-American. He garners accolades from opposing coaches wherever he plays. Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet has credited Welch as that rare kind of player who makes all those on the ice with him better, and BC coach Jerry York has labeled him as one of the best rear-guards in the country. But there were times last season when Welch’s youth showed through, primarily when taking a bad penalty. He has, and has shown, the ability to contribute offensively and to dominate his end of the ice. The question now becomes, how consistently...