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...believe it," said Nurse Moser. "It's as though you filled a shotgun shell with slivers of glass and shot it at someone." One man was pierced in 100 places; there were slashed throats, punctured lungs. Dr. Richard Crook treated patients with "blast trauma." "We saw ruptured eyeballs and rib fractures," he said. "One man was driving by the building when the bomb went off and had his window open. It ruptured his eardrums...
...class. Pupils said the aide, Amanda Howard of Little Rock, laughed while up to 10 students beat up 11-year-old Eugene Pitts, even -- according to one student -- saying "Everybody kick his butt." The incident came to light after a local hospital that treated Eugene for nose and rib injuries reported it. The school district had never told police. Howard, who was freed on bond, plans to appeal the conviction...
...dizzy and disoriented that a team doctor forced him to spend the rest of the game on the bench. Hours later Moore was still complaining of nausea and a severe headache. Though he had no sprains or broken bones, the problem was potentially more devastating than a cracked rib or battered knee: he had suffered a concussion -- an invisible, sometimes short-lived but often dangerous injury to the brain...
...they had nothing to eat; and so they went to the movies. And for the next two decades they saw Cary Grant and Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis in screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby," "The Philadelphia Story," "Adam's Rib," "The Awful Truth," and "It Happened One Night," among many others, and these were not just funny physically, they were also witty...
...world when publishers were offered an age-old story line with a modern twist: boy meets girl from the wrong party; boy loses girl to rival presidential campaign; and, after the election, boy and girl reconcile and marry. It's Romeo and Juliet, His Girl Friday and Adam's Rib, with Bill Clinton and George Bush in supporting roles. With two publishing giants sharing the imprint, the hype machine for this joint memoir by Mary Matalin and James Carville is racing on overdrive: a love story for the ages set against the drama of the 1992 campaign. But if romance...