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JERUSALEM: Looking closer to death than to the freedom into which he had just been bundled, Sheik Ahmed Yassin was strapped to a stretcher and wheeled across the tarmac before dawn Wednesday, bound for a Jordanian helicopter. The release of the man that Hamas considers its "spiritual leader" was sudden, but not a surprise to those in the know. "The Israelis have debated about releasing Yassin for two years," says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "They've been terrified that he'll die in jail and provoke even more attacks...
Everything to play for, then. Who would crack first? Sadly, B.C. would suffer in more ways than one. Though LaCouture's elbow to the head of Chris Masters deserved a penalty, it was Masters who left the ice--unconscious on a stretcher...
...taking up to 70 people inside hostage after the place was surrounded by police. After a tense afternoon of negotiations, the captors began releasing the hostages just before 3 p.m. There were no injuries reported from the incident, but one woman who appeared shaken was carried away on a stretcher. Police believe that the robbery attempt is connected to at least three other similar crimes at other Financial Exchange stores in the city. In each incident, store employees have been taken hostage in their homes the night before the store is to be robbed. Thursday night, police kept watch outside...
Emergency medical technicians were carrying the student on a stretcher as police arrived to quell the disturbance...
Somebody had the presence of mind to give Reeve mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and the paramedics arrived about a minute later. They intubated him and took a long and careful time to put him on a stretcher, attempting to prevent further injury to his spine. He was taken to the Culpeper Medical Center, a small medical facility that was nearly empty that weekend. Dana and Will, his three-year-old son who was along for the trip, were summoned, Dana not yet informed of the extent of the injury, Will not understanding what had happened except that something was terribly...