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...take this walk. As Wang opened the metal gate to her new, middle-class apartment block, an attacker struck from behind, smashing her head with a brick. Wang stumbled, screamed and struggled desperately to get inside the apartment building. She didn't make it. Her assailant spun her around and plunged a watermelon knife into her chest seven times. Then, as neighbors peered out from above, the killer fled...
...kids' purchases. And while Kirk's books have been big sellers, he has not had the runaway success of Ian Falconer's spunky little pig Olivia or President Bush's personal favorite, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Still, neither Falconer's nor Carle's works are being spun into anything nearly so ambitious as the Sunny Patch brand, Miss Spider's line of goods. Target, Callaway and Kirk think that doesn't matter. "Our core guest [i.e., customer] is a busy mom with young children. She's highly educated," says Sally Mueller, Target's director of marketing planning...
...approval for a clinical trial of marijuana for aids and cancer wasting. He believes the FDA turned him down because of political pressure. "If you want to study its harmful effects, you can get all the money you want," says Consroe. "But for this one, I would have spun my wheels forever." (An FDA spokeswoman declined to comment...
With his back facing the goal, Darci gathered a bouncing pass, then spun and struck it towards the lower right hand corner of the net. Roth, already leaning to his right, tried to dive back the other way but could not quite reach the well-struck shot. With less than 10 minutes to play and down 2-0, the Crimson had little hope for a comeback...
...very first time McDavitt received the ball in the circle at the 18-minute mark, she took advantage. She spun her back to a defender just inside the top of the circle, and fired a backhander inside the far right post to tie the game...