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Table of contents: At the edge of disaster -- At the edge of terror -- At the edge of injustice -- At the edge of the impossible Summary: True accounts of desperate situations, and the split-second decisions that people were forced to make. Many of the stories are Canadian, while the rest are from around the world. A young man in Nunavut fights off a polar bear to save his friend. A Canadian peacekeeper in the Congo risks his own life to save those of stranded tourists. Ordinary people show extraordinary character during the Halifax Explosion, the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, the Tiananmen Square protests, and September 11, 2001