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...July 13, 2007, Zachery's 41st birthday. He was working in the hazardous-materials unit, and a call came in from a local hospital: chemical spill. Normally, Zachery would have been behind the wheel of the truck, but on that day, he was acting captain, so he rode in the passenger seat. Siren blaring, lights flashing, horn honking - none of it registered with the driver of a city trash truck, who turned into the path of the speeding haz-mat unit. The crash folded the front of Zachery's vehicle, and his head spiderwebbed the windshield...
...professionally in the 1950s before settling into family life. The champ used to tell his sons, "As long as you have a place to keep the dew off your head, you're O.K." Facing foreclosure, Joseph Zachery worries about pride more than shelter, though. He has rented a storage unit so that his belongings will never be dragged to the curb. "If I have to leave," he said, "I want to leave with some dignity...
...some U.S. soldiers in Iraq, however, the prospect of leaving sooner rather than later within the established withdrawal timeline is welcome. "Good," said Army Captain Matt van Stavern, whose unit is serving in Mosul, where U.S. and Iraqi security forces continue to battle insurgents who've remained active in the city for the past year despite an overall drop in violence across the country. "My boys are ready to go home. And the Iraqi people will be ready...
...things that have impressed me the most are the changes we’ve made in coming together as a unit, and really having a more competitive spirit,” Saretsky said. “It’s been several years in the making for the coaching staff and I feel like that we’re really starting to see it start come together...
...conference, but the only potential beneficiaries of the fictitious event are the scammers. "The internet is wonderful in many ways but these gangs put a lot of effort in because they make money from it," said Straw, who as Home Secretary established the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit to crack down on exactly such activities. "In a lot of cases, they do get people to cough up." To the merriment of his Westminster colleagues, none of Straw's constituents put hand into pocket to rescue their MP. (See a story about how one web browser warns users about potential phishing...