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...Kuwait Red Crescent hospital in Peshawar, in the farthest bed next to a window, the sprawled body takes up only a fragment of the cot. Rahmat Hussain, 10, is not the only child on the floor, but he is the most seriously injured. Most of the time, the bandaged wound is covered by a thin, dirty green blanket. With a tentative smile, as if offering a guest a cup of tea, his older brother, Tor Kham, volunteers to pull back the blanket...
...Kham has been sleeping on the floor next to his brother's bed, waiting, watching and helping the nurses clean the wound twice a day. It is a task he dreads. Tor Kham and the nurse have to tie Rahmat Hussain's wrists to the bedpost with strips of gauze to keep him from reaching down while they remove the bandages. All the skin has been torn from Rahmat Hussain's inner thighs and groin to his stomach, and the pink, raw flesh forms a vast inverted horseshoe two inches deep -- as if he had mounted a burning saddle that...
...Indian soldiers and policemen in the streets, Srinagar is enemy territory. At every major crossing, they huddle around sandbag bunkers. They never know when a young man might dash up, whip back his cloak and blast away with an AK-47 rifle. He might kill or wound a soldier or two, forcing the military to give chase and shoot back -- and thus turn more people against the government...
...Andrew and Tayenaka remember the night they forced a local community hospital to admit a man who was gushing blood from a bullet wound to the neck. The sophisticated county trauma centers were closed; a less-equipped emergency room at Downey Community Hospital, six minutes away, was full. The paramedics were ordered to St. Francis Medical Center, twice the distance. They went instead to Downey, and the man survived the night. "I know the situation," said St. Andrew. "I'd pay extra taxes to keep the trauma centers open. I want one available if my kid is hurt...
...Altoona, Fla., Edward Walton was a 6-ft. 1-in., 179-lb. bully who once beat his 5-ft. 10-in., 140-lb. friend Ronald Gale so badly that Gale wound up in a hospital with broken ribs. On May 7, 1989, when Walton charged at Gale in a drunken rage, the smaller man pulled out a .25-cal. pistol and shot Walton through the heart. Prosecutors charged Gale with second-degree murder, then accepted his guilty plea to manslaughter; he served 60 days...