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Vote for Our Hero of the Year Every month, Reader’s Digest spotlights ordinary citizens who risk something big—their reputat
Vote for Our Hero of the Year Every month, Reader’s Digest spotlights ordinary citizens who risk something big—their reputat
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2010-02-20
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Vote for Our Hero of the Year
Every month, Reader’s Digest spotlights ordinary citizens who risk something big—their reputation, their money, sometimes even their livesto help someone else. Here we profile seven of the most extraordinary Americans we know. Whose story inspired you the most? Cast your vote at www. rd. com/everyday heroes. We’ll update you on our winner in the April issue.
The Good Doctor
The tiny village of Bayou La Batre, Ala., had been without a doctor for several years when Regian Benjamin turned a shuttered pharmacy into a community clinic. And in they came—patients with problems you didn’t often see in a medical school; shrimp poisoning from the seafood plants, fishhooks in eyebrows, shark bites.
In 1998 Hurricane Georges roared through, smashing everything in its path. The clinic was destroyed. For two years, Benjamin made house calls in her battered pickup, working weekends as an ER physician and running up her credit cards while rebuilding her clinic.
In June 2002, Benjamin, at 45, became the first woman and the first African American to be named president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. But her passion remains her patients. Every once in a while a headhunter calls with a job offer. For Benjamin the answer is easy: "Not interested."
The Shadow
Driving up a residential street in the quiet suburb of Clarkston, Wash., Kim Heimgartner noticed a man pulling a girl of 11 or so into a white sedan. The girl struggled, but the man yanked her by the backpack, shoved her into the backseat and sped off. "Maybe it was her dad," Heimgarmer wondered. Possibly. But...
With her own sixyearold daughter in her jeep. Heimgartner turned around and followed the sedan out of town. She dialed 911. I’ve witnessed a possible abduction, she explained, describing their remote location near a landfill.
Heimgartne’s hunch (直觉) was right. After a threehour standoff with police, the kidnapper surrendered. In his car were a gun, knives, cameras, duct tape and 90 rounds of ammunition. He is now serving a 13year, 8month prison terms. And Heimgartner knows to trust her gut instinct.
The Brave Boy
"I went into the ditch and fiipped(翻转) over twice," recalls Tammy Hill of the accident on Thanksgiving, 2002. "Luckily, the kids were all in car seats. I went through the driver’s side window." Hill’s sevenyearold son, Titus Adams, suddenly became the head of the family. He wrapped blankets around his two younger sisters, crawled through the broken window and wearing only his pajamas and socks, walked toward the lights of a dairy farm a third of a mile away. Weather reports showed it was below freezing, and Titus was scared of the dark. Colorado State Trooper J. R. Peters was the first officer to arrive at the accident scene.’ This kid was unbelievable, he said. Tammy’s injuries were severing, but thanks to her son, she’s going to be okay.
The Track Star
All Brad McCorkle intended that afternoon was meet his cousin, Kim, for lunch. But when be got to Valley Bank in Davenport, Iowa, where Kim worked as a teller, a man leapt over the gate by the teller’s window and rushed past. Kim pointed at the man and mouthed to McCorkle, a former track star (田径明星), "Go get him!"
Across the street, through a supermarket parking lot, over a barbedwire fence, McCorkle chased the man, cornering him in somebody’s backyard. When police arrived, they found $12,940 in the man’s pocket. Coincidentally, the pursuit lasted a quarter of a mile—McCorkle’s best distance. The robber was sentenced to ten years.
The Mountain Climber
At 13,000 feet, about to summit Colorado’s Quandary Peak, Andy Kass and Matt Wisniewski felt like they were on top of the world. But in a flash, the snow beneath their feet cracked wide open, and both men were swept downhill at 50 m.p.h.
Kass somersaulted some 200 feet; when he awoke, his face was bloody and his friend was gone. Dazed and shivering, he started down the mountain, hoping to find Wisniewski before sunset. But his numb fingers couldn’t grip the handholds in the cliff and barn! he fell, dropping four stories onto solid granite, smashing his kneecap. Kass screamed out in pain, but struggled to his feet and kept going.
At the bottom, he saw Wisniewski, his face blank and his body temperature dangerously low. Kass forced himself into a run, adrenaline(肾上腺素) helping him pusfi through the pain, until he found a house with a phone to call 911.
Wisniewski’s heart stopped twice while medics rushed him to the hospital. Amazingly, he recovered, marveling: "Andy ran for my life."
The Boogie Boarder
Day one of his vacation in Maul; Stephen Bona was goofing around on his boogie board when he saw something huge and gray leap out of the water about 20 yards away. Shark!
Instinctively, he turned to catch the next wave in. ~hen he heard screams. A tenfoot shark had grabbed hold of Julie GivenGlance, a 34yearold triathlete. Her right hand was nearly severed and she was losing blood.
The other swimmers headed back in. Common sense told Bona to follow. Instead, he paddled into the crimson waves. He slipped his board under the victim’s back and Started kicking for the faraway beach. They both knew that blood attracts sharks.
It took surgeons four hours to reartach GivenGlance’s hand. But a year after the attack, she planned to head back to Hawaiiback to the Pacific to swim.
The Cowgirl
Just before Christmas, 2002, intruders broke into Melissa Alexander’s parents’ garage in German Township, Ohio. They’d intended to steal a car, or the presents stashed in Melissa’s mom’s mink, or both. As two figures ran down the driveway, Melissa, pajamaclad and shoeless, dashed after them. One intruder looked back just as Melissaall fivefootthree and 115 pounds Of hertook a running jump. She tackled him as they slid across the icy ground. "Don’t even think about moving," she said. With a 37foot lunge line (套马绳), used to tame horses, she roped the man’s hands behind his head and pinned him to the ground with her body weight. The men were found guilty of criminal trespass and theft charges.
It was the first time for Andy Kass and Matt Wisniewski to Summit Colorado’s
选项
A、Y
B、N
C、NG
答案
C
解析
Quandary Peak when the snow benefit their feet cracked wide open.扫读整部分The mountain climber,我们只可以获知Andy Kass和他的同伴登上了山峰,但文中并没有提到这是第几次。
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