EMT
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics provide care to the sick and injured until the patients are in the care of a doctor at a hospital. From car crashes to heart attacks, EMTs and paramedics must be prepared to handle any situation in which someone’s health and safety may be compromised.
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Love And The Third Degree
Alexis Homan, 20, decided to take the fall for her boyfriend, Lannis McAlpin, 26, when the two were charged with felony drug possession. She said she is in love and doesn’t want to be away from him.
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Just Another Married Couple
Although Phil Ouellette and Scott Weldon had been a couple for 20 years when California legalized same-sex marriage on May 15, 2008, they never thought too much about getting married. But when relatives visited that summer, the men decided it would be the perfect time for a wedding.
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The Girl in the Window Revisited
For the first seven years of her life, Dani never saw the sun, felt the wind or tasted solid food. She was kept in a closet in a house in Plant City, Fla., where she was cloistered in darkness, left in a dirty diaper and fed with only a bottle.
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Marching into the Past
The beat of a drum rang out as the Confederate and Union soldiers took their positions on the battlefield.
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Smokin’ Joe Frazier
When Joe Frazier walked into his Philadelphia gym, it was as if he was showing up at Madison Square Garden for another bout with Muhammad Ali.
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The King of Kitch
For art deco collector Randy Lilly, nothing’s worse than an ugly piece of furniture. In fact, Lilly despises unattractive furniture so much that he says he would buy a beautiful chair even if he couldn’t sit on it. And he’s not just saying that, he’s done it. Perched in the corner of Lilly’s living room [...]
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Hero of His Own Adventure
For artist Mark Cline, every day is an adventure and anything imaginable is possible.
So when Cline got the idea to build a life-size replica of Stonehenge out of Styrofoam, he didn’t think twice about making it a reality. He purchased several massive pieces of foam, painted them gray and erected them in a field in Natural Bridge, Va.
Ta-da! Foamhenge.
And when he envisioned an attraction that entailed dinosaurs devouring Yankee soldiers, Cline went ahead with that, too.
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Alyssa’s Story – Part 1: The Diagnosis
Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Currence was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer that attacks the lymphatic system, on the first day of her senior year at Broadway High School, Aug. 25, 2005.
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Alyssa’s Story – Part 2: The Treatment
Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Currence was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer that attacks the lymphatic system, on the first day of her senior year at Broadway High School, Aug. 25, 2005.
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Alyssa’s Story – Part 3: The Future
Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Currence was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer that attacks the lymphatic system, on the first day of her senior year at Broadway High School, Aug. 25, 2005.
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