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Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle...
...that's exactly what Dr. Stephen Russell was hoping for. A cancer specialist at the Mayo Clinic, Russell does everything he can to aid and abet those viral bandits. He arms them with detailed instructions for finding their target cells and outfits them with specially designed protein keys to speed up entry. As far as he's concerned, those viruses are the good guys, since the cells they are attacking and destroying are cancer cells in a fast-growing tumor...
...SPECIALIST JIM BATCHELOR...
...says, pacing around the room. "I saw the guy shooting at me. He was on a rooftop, and I saw the muzzle flash. It sounds weird, but I saw the bullet. Then it hit me in the head and snapped my head back. It made me really mad." A specialist machine gunner, Batchelor shot back and watched his would-be assassin topple to his death before crumpling to the ground himself. The bullet that hit Batchelor pierced his helmet and lodged in his skull, miraculously stopping before it reached his brain. It was April 4, 2004, and Batchelor had been...
...country - about $1.4 billion last year - is just a fraction of the amount that has flowed into Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic since the early 1990s. Thus, how Yushchenko's government handles firms such as Kryvorizhstal is a "critical issue," says Julian Exeter, a senior economist and Ukraine specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ebrd) in London. "There's a need for some clear criteria about what cases they are going to review...