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...There, 18 American soldiers died and some 80 were injured while pinned down in a hostile corner of the capital, Mogadishu, with no way out. Just two days earlier, a U.S. medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with a planeload of injured servicemen, leaving behind a skeleton staff in the 40-bed battlefield hospital. "There was no system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk...
...Kelly's Empire Rising, set in 1930, is very much a 20th century beast: caffeinated, electrified, car and money and baseball crazy, with subways rumbling in its bowels and skyscrapers sprouting from its scalp. Kelly's hero, a good-natured Irishman named Michael Briody, is busy riveting together the skeleton of the Empire State Building, which at the peak of construction grew by a floor a day. Kelly devotes some great kinetic prose to his labors: "Briody steadied his legs and back and torso and arms and clenched his jaw against the rattle of the pneumatic gun. His muscles were...
...element of feminism." In Green's view, Bryant's predecessor as Chief Justice, Alastair Nicholson, tended to be swayed by the arguments of women's groups and "wasn't especially sympathetic to fathers' concerns." Green, who's also a mediator, believes the centers should be run by a skeleton government staff that would distribute work to a range of mediators - including, perhaps, his own small firm. But the Attorney-General says he's seen no persuasive evidence of bias...
...soundscape of Pole-like dub and fuzzed out guitar lines, he transubstantiates his snippets’ individual unsongness into lyrical gold. Dose sing-speaks couplets like “what’s left are fires beating off of faces” and “the bright red skeleton of a cynic” until the anthemic refrain of “no wet concrete for new song street…” kicks in paradoxically, negating the conceptual basis of the exercise through its cohesiveness even while expressing a total disregard for preconceived structure. In less practiced...
...Friday, Hwang and his roommate crossed the Charles River to the Longwood Medical Campus to visit the Warren Anatomical Museum, located in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. Among its array of medical artifacts, the museum boasts the first ether inhaler, a skeleton of Siamese twins, and the skull of Phineas Gage—a railroad worker who experienced severe personality changes after a nail went through his frontal lobe...