An Australian man is recovering in hospital after fighting off a 4m (13ft) saltwater crocodile that tried to drag him into a creek.
DuPont is fighting a similar battle over perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used to manufacture Teflon nonstick coatings that lawyers say lingers in cookware and can be released under high heat.
His schoolmaster father had contracted tuberculosis, and young Ka-shing suffered a milder bout but worked through it ("I always had a fighting heart").
In a tweet on its Twitter feed, MTGox said it was fighting off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which involves a site being bombarded with huge amounts of data.
Let's start with the wine writers, the people who contribute observations like "It is a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption, " at least in the imaginations of James Thurber and Monty Python (a fine Australian fighting wine, indeed).
They seem to genuinely want to hire women (or at least give them a fighting chance).
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Journalists recognized the plight of Zahid (Talat Hussain), a reporter fighting to tell Zar Gul's story in the face of press controls.
Because Connor is fighting a completely different war (one against the Templars) than the combatants around him, some of his enemies happen to be dressed in blue rather than red.
But will the Fed's tactics of fighting deflation (which is intrinsically a good thing for creditors) through monetary inflation ignite a virulent new strain of inflation (which kills bond returns and drives down their prices)?
Ms. RAWAIDA HAMUD: (Through translator) (Unintelligible) he died for fighting for his country, and he was running like a tiger just to save his country.
Arlen Specter (R-PA), who is fighting a recurrence of Hodgkin's Disease, a cancer of the lymph system, also commented on the diagnosis.
In a Commons statement on 26 July 2010, Home Secretary Theresa May claimed plans for electing police commissioners and replacing the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) with a national crime-fighting force represented "the most radical reforms to policing in at least 50 years".
Faber (28-6) got his career back on track with an impressive victory over Menjivar (25-11), a Salvadoran veteran fighting out of Canada.
The latest example of this is Vivus Inc. ( VVUS), which has a new obesity-fighting drug called Osymia.
In bus queues and on street corners, Zimbabweans wonder why their young men are fighting a foreign war 2, 000 kilometres (1, 250 miles) away.
It consists of only 800 fighting infantrymen in an area 250 miles (400km) by 250 miles, a battalion fewer than many thought the bare minimum.
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The Fighting Irish (23-7, 11-6 Big East) ended a three-game losing streak to the Red Storm (16-13, 8-9), who lost for the fifth time in six games.
As I watched Adam Scott become the first Aussie to win the Masters (fighting off a game challenge from 2009 Masters champ Angel Cabrera of Argentina), it was unavoidable to think about the invaluable importance of experience.
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Sights like that motivated Haugen to start a slavery-fighting nonprofit seven years ago called International Justice Mission (IJM), based in Arlington, Va.
Sights like that motivated Haugen to start a slavery-fighting nonprofit seven years ago called International Justice Mission (IJM), based in Arlington, Virginia.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British soldier has died in fighting in southern Iraq -- the first British combat fatality of the campaign.
When it comes to fighting for power in Bihar, the Yadavs (the name also applies to a caste) are enemies of the upper castes.
Microsoft needs hack a third off Surface RT prices and widen distribution to give the fondleslab a fighting chance to compete, said equities analyst Detwiler Fenton Group (DFG).
The Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger lessons were developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a starting point for teachers to introduce the topic of world hunger to their students.
Aho's Salt Lake City software firm, ClearPlay , is one of several small companies (with names like Clean Flicks and Play It Clean Video) fighting off a suit in U.S. District Court in Denver, brought by 16 famed Hollywood directors and eight large studios, for selling cleaned-up versions of popular videos to squeamish parents.
She's got a bag full of charisma and her physical acting (beyond the fighting) is excellent.
But after fighting between PLO guerrillas and the Jordanian army in 1970 (a conflict known as Black September), the PLO was forced out of Jordan.
For instance, AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) is fighting a massive court battle to keep generic drugmakers from copying its acid reflux drug, Prilosec.
Mr Shevardnadze, sensing a slippage in his popularity among economic losers (and also the victims of a flare-up of fighting around Abkhazia in May), announced a wide-ranging cabinet shuffle this week.
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