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...woke up in the snow, opened my eyes, and directly in front of me was my ungloved right hand, which was clearly dead," he remembers. "It looked like a marble sculpture of a hand. I hit it on the ice and realized that so much of my tissue was dead, I wasn't feeling any pain. That had the marvelous effect of focusing my attention. I had an innate awareness that if the cavalry was going to come rescue me they would already have been there. If I didn't stand up, I realized, I was going to spend eternity...
...that same year, Texas recently passed the most comprehensive AED bill in the country, requiring every private, elementary, middle and high school in the state to have a defibrillator and a staff member trained to use it. "When the sixteenth child was saved by a defibrillator, the Governor finally woke up and said we do have a problem," Friend says. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
Tetsuya Shiroo woke up that morning and got himself a gun. Before the day was over, he allegedly used it to murder Iccho Itoh, the mayor of the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki, outside his campaign office. While the April 17 shooting first appeared to be an assassination, it soon emerged that Shiroo, a 59-year-old yakuza (gangster) with ties to Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest criminal syndicate, seemed motivated less by politics than by a petty personal grievance. He blamed a minor car accident on city construction work and wanted $17,000 in damages from the Nagasaki government...
...some kibbutzim (not Degania), children were separated from parents and raised in collective dormitories. Says Gal-Sarai: "Kibbutzniks from the other places are bringing good business to Tel Aviv's shrinks." Koperstein, who was not raised at Degania, recalls the time when, at age 7, he woke from a nightmare in the dorm and ran home through the darkness to be comforted by his parents. "At 3 a.m., the wardens came knocking on the door to bring me back. I couldn't raise my kids that way," he says...
...were dead even for the first 30 or 40 strokes, and at one point I was on the seven-seat,” second varsity coxswain Kevin He said. “So I told the guys, I’m on the seven, and everyone sort of woke up and was like, ‘Wow, we can do this.’”The boat moved up to almost a length’s advantage over Navy, at which point He heard the other boat’s coxswain making a call for the Midshipmen...