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...flag whipping in the wind. As they passed Virgil and his brother James, 16, Farley told Sims to fire the gun and "scare 'em." Sims closed his eyes and pulled the trigger. Two bullets hit Virgil in the chest and cheek, hurling him into a ditch as the motorbike sped on. "I've been shot," Virgil said. "No you ain't," James said in disbelief. "Just stop tremblin...
Then came another 47-yard catch where Edwards sidestepped one defender, shook off another and sped by two more before being tackled...
...pocketknife and headed for the two men, who claimed to have come from Basra to visit the grave of a relative. "Kill the Wahhabis!" the crowd shouted. "Slit their throats!" Finally, the Americans took charge. A group of soldiers quickly bundled the two men into a humvee and sped off. (On Saturday, U.S. military sources said the two men were still in custody, together with a third man who had been arrested by the local police.) The crowd started advancing menacingly toward the remaining Americans until the cleric shouted, "Don't waste your energy here! Go and give blood...
...been waiting for this moment for days or, in my case, a lifetime, and the deliciously deserted road beckoned. The Charger, rescued from a junkyard a decade ago and painted "Richard Petty blue," roared off when the light changed. It hit 100 m.p.h. with ease and sped toward the vanishing point down Highway...
...public retirement home in suburban Paris tended to the 80 residents with ice packs, wet towels and fluids to help them survive the suffocating heat in the home, which, like most French retirement homes, is not air-conditioned. Three residents died during the heat wave - deaths sped by high temperatures, not staff negligence. "They knew exactly what to do to make sure [we] came through fine," says De Noinville. "Not everyone was so lucky." As death toll estimates in France soared from 2,000 on Aug. 14 to as high as 13,400 last week - geometrically higher than anywhere else...