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...dragged to the open doorway, where she too was shot in the head and thrown onto the runway. Beneath the plane, the wounded Artzi crawled toward her friend's body, but one of the hijackers saw her and shot her in the hip. "They shot us as a sport," she said later, "as though they were shooting dogs." Mendelson never regained consciousness, and three days later was pronounced clinically dead...
...type of program was the Mechanic Arts High School in St. Paul, which in 1973 became the first public high school in the U.S. to have its own full-service health clinic in the building. Set up by St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, it offered everything from immunizations to sport physicals to treatment for venereal disease. Significantly, it also advised teenagers on contraception and dispensed prescriptions for birth control devices (provided that parents had agreed beforehand to allow their children to visit the clinic...
...Sport Some occasions of joy, some of wistfulness, and one that is both: Howard Cosell leaves...
...concert, held in London and Philadelphia the same July day and broadcast live around the world, brought in an additional $72 million. The success of these projects, as well as Geldof s cocky fervor, inspired such allied enterprises as FarmAid, Fashion Aid and--in the late spring of '86--Sport Aid. He knows that much more than a shower of dollars is required to combat famine. "We could spend our money tomorrow, and it could keep 30 million people alive for seven weeks," he says, "and then they'd die. Or, we can build wells and give them a life...
...projects worked "beyond my wildest dreams," but Geldof, 33, adds, "we won't drag on." He vows that Sport Aid will be his last major fund-raising effort. Now, he feels, "I have to concentrate on making a living. I have to remove myself and distance myself and start to think in a musical frame of mind." He and his band, the Boomtown Rats, have just completed a mini-tour of Italy. Geldof will use his share of the proceeds to pay off some accumulated debts and replenish savings depleted by his worldwide drumbeating. "We don't take any administrative...