Houston was playing without its injured superstar, McGrady (who was in the clubhouse watching TV), and its injured best supporting actor, Ron Artest (cheering in street clothes from the bench).
And it has real enemies, like the Salafists attempting to break down hospital doors to get at its injured.
Oliver Sacks's case histories are so gripping partly because, by stripping away the ordinary, they show the brain in all its injured peculiarity.
Colonel Holcomb's backers, who include surgeons both in and out of the military, say he is an exceptionally hard-working physician whose single-minded focus on wounded soldiers has led to improvements in the way the military treats its injured.
It is just putting the poor thing out of its misery rather than letting it suffer the rest of its life injured and alone.
The voting was especially close for best older colt or gelding, a division that saw most of its stars injured and unable to finish the season.
A former convict wanted on charges that he stole a BMW sports car last month and stuffed its critically injured owner in the trunk was killed Friday in a shootout with officers on a fugitive task force in Florida, officials said.
A Greyhound bus bound for Manhattan from Atlantic City careened off the Garden State Parkway near Toms River, N.J., yesterday and landed on its side, injuring more than 20 passengers, the police said.
In New Jersey, the state police said a Greyhound bus heading to New York City from Atlantic City slid out of its lane at Milepost 88 on the Garden State Parkway in Lakewood, slammed into a guardrail and turned onto its side, injuring 46 people around 1 50 a.m. yesterday.
They could also break inside the barrel when fired which often led to the weapon being damaged and its crew injured.
