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...happen, the man tried to persuade the sentry to allow him and his family to leave in peace. But the sentry cooly threatened that if she did not exit the car, he would kill one of her children. The husband was then accosted by some other soldiers. Panic-stricken, she got out of the car, and was brutally raped in front of her husband and children. By the magnanimity of the Iraqi government, they were then allowed to go in "peace...
...ironies, of course, begin to multiply as soon as a life comes unraveled: in retrospect, everything seems an augury. One night before, the local TV station had announced that the conditions -- 106 degrees heat, gale-force winds and drought-stricken hills -- were the best for a fire in 100 years. That day, at lunch, I had been talking with a friend whose mother had just died, about the pathos of going through old belongings. And when, at the optician's office that evening, my doctor stepped out to go and sniff at what he thought might be a fire...
Incredibly, emergency crews were not able to attack the flames promptly with anything more effective than seawater. The Norwegian owners of the stricken tanker had hired a Rotterdam-based salvage firm to deal with the accident. Nozzles, hoses and pumps for fire-fighting-foam equipment had to be air shipped from the Netherlands. This took two days. Some oil-containment equipment was flown from London. Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company...
...moved to Phoenix, where for eleven impecunious years he fought unsuccessfully in the courts to obtain redress. Judges consistently held that the Government could not be held liable, even though it knew of the danger from radiation and kept the victims in the dark. More than 1,000 stricken miners "were sacrificed for cold war nuclear weapons," says Utah Democratic Congressman Wayne Owens...
...samples of brain tissue taken from people who had recently died. Some suffered from Alzheimer's, some had other neurological disorders, and the rest died from unrelated causes. Using a simple procedure involving common laboratory techniques, the scientists were able to identify 86% of the patients who had been stricken with Alzheimer's. The scientists expect that within two years they will be able to develop a similar test that would detect ADAP in spinal fluid taken from living patients...