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Ihsanullah Khan is long-shot rescuer. A Pakistani immigrant, Khan drove a cab in Washington and pinned his dreams on winning the lottery. Khan always played the same numbers--2, 4, 6, 17, 25 and 31--because they had once appeared in a dream. Every week for 15 years, he bet religiously on the numbers and lost. Then in November 2001, when the jackpot rose to $55.2 million, Khan's lucky numbers finally came through. He pulled his taxi over to the curb, took a deep breath and thought of his mother, whose dying words to him were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Tales of Courage | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...head in a fight over a bag of ice. A rescue team from Texas that had ferried hundreds of people to safety in their flat-bottom boats were told by a New Orleans sheriff that unless they were armed, they should get out of the city. At one point, rescuer Randy White says, "Someone yelled out to me, 'If you don't get us out by 12 o'clock, we're going to start shooting all the rescuers.'" One man was standing on Canal Boulevard with water up to his chest wearing a mink coat that he had liberated from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...RESCUER BY REMOTE NEED HELP? SEND IN THE ROBOT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artificial Intelligence: Forging The Future: Rise of the Machines | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

Biewener would also like to apply his research to robotics. He envisions a robot in the pattern of a dog or human that could act as a mechanic rescuer...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pen and Paper Revolutionaries: Medical School Birdman Studies the Science of Movement | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...members of the WALT DISNEY CO. board resigned last week with a call to oust CEO Michael Eisner. Long gone are the days when Eisner, a TIME cover subject in 1988, was seen solely as the company's rescuer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 15 Years Ago In TIME | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

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