Proper priorities.Mark Bartholomew is Bartholomew I, 1940–, Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, b. Imvros, Turkey, as Dimitrios Archondonis. He attended theological seminary in Istanbul and later studied in Rome, Switzerland, and Germany. a demolition worker tot Brandenburg Industrial Services in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,329, making it the eighth largest municipality in Pennsylvania. . On the evening of March 15, he was cruising along Interstate in·ter·state adj. Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states. n. One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States. Noun 1. 70 in a company truck when an automobile ahead of him suddenly went out of control and began bouncing off the highway median. Other drivers swerved to avoid it, and kept going, but Bartholomew noticed that the female driver's head was bobbing up and down, an indication that she was unconscious. He quickly decided to try to use his truck to stop the careening The careening of a sailing vessel is laying her up on a calm beach at high tide in order to expose one side or another of the ship's hull for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out. car. Speeding ahead of it, he first tried to box it in, but was unable to do so. On a second try, he pulled ahead, allowed the bumper of the runaway vehicle to hit his, then gradually slowed to a stop. The woman at the wheel of the out-of-control car, Elizabeth Driver, had suffered stomach pains and passed out. A physician stopped to help and stayed with her until an ambulance arrived. Driver, 58, described Bartholomew as a "lifesaver," telling the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. from her hospital bed on March 18 that "I don't have a scratch on me. It's very surprising in this day and age that someone would come to the rescue and risk hurting themselves." Bartholomew's truck was damaged during the ordeal, but he jokingly told AP that he doesn't worry about it, since "it's a company truck." And "besides, what's a vehicle compared to a life?" |
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