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...When an IED explodes next to an armored vehicle in Iraq or Afghanistan, the shock from the blast can cause severe brain injuries to soldiers in the immediate vicinity, even if they are in armored vehicles...
...covering the war's launch I arrived in Baghdad on the day the statue came down. Some of us who had been there before the war started were kicked out during the war. So I came back and the city was still in a state of shock. People realized that something important and profound had happened but they'd gone through so many disappointments before that they couldn't really come out and celebrate. So you had all these images on television of the flag being hoisted on top of the statue, the statue being pulled down, and some people...
...among the top six scorers. “It’s pretty cool,” he said. “I figured I had a pretty good chance. Obviously I hadn’t competed in Putnam before, but it wasn’t a complete shock.” While teams of three students are chosen to represent their schools each year, other students can also participate individually. Liu, Miller, and Justin J. Bae ’08 were among the next ten highest ranking individuals, each winning a prize of $1,000. Abel, Iurie Boreico...
...told the New York Times that fellow legislators, upon first hearing that Spitzer had hired a hooker, believed it was a practical joke. Says Eric Lane, a law professor at Hofstra University: "This isn't Bill Clinton, where in one sense you would have expected it. This is a shock...
Most recently, a slew of elite universities—led by Harvard and followed by Yale, Stanford, and a host of others—significantly expanded financial aid offerings, potentially making them even more attractive to applicants who had been previously dissuaded by the sticker shock of high tuition...