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Late yesterday afternoon, Vice President Dick Cheney's motorcade drove over the Massachusetts Turnpike and headed out of view, towards the windowless rear of Boston's Harvard Club. A half hour earlier, Governor W. Mitt Romney, in a black Ford Explorer, had also slid passed the protestors outside the club using the same back door...
...would expect; a shin bone smashed to splinters. The formica top of the X-ray table had trauma debris all over it - bits of asphalt, dirt and, of course, blood, with scraps of that useless white roll paper they put on exam tables. I stabilized the leg while she slid him over. The door opened, the cops saw the situation and flooded in. They helped roll him back out - pretty quickly - and I was left alone for a moment in the X-ray room. A metal object glinted from under the table paper. It was a Leatherman Wave - a multipurpose...
...first bottle was an interesting, fun champagne with adequate fruit that slid all over my palate. Our second bottle, a Chardonnay from Sonoma, came out firing with pungent and powerful flavors accented by a smoky, herbal nose that evoked hickory-smoked nettles...
...doctors spotted an American soldier on a nearby rooftop. The nurses slid Jessi's hospital bed over to the window so it would be in plain sight. "They wanted them to see me," Jessi said...
...Monday, barely past 1 p.m., Valencia's Line 1 subway train derailed right under the city's downtown, crashed against the inside walls, and slid outside the tracks for 100 meters before coming to a deadly halt. Inside, 41 people lay dead. According to the train's black box, the convoy entered the curve that leads to the Jesus station at 80 km/h, double the speed limit. The regional transportation minister, Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n said that "the machinist must have suffered some sort of unconsciousness or problem," adhering to the official line that only human factor was to blame...