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The large white bandage covering Enois Malbranche's right eye hid the hole left by a young woman in his taxi who had demanded his money, pointed a gun at his face and pulled the trigger. ''When you get shot, it's hot and you see the flash,'' Mr. Malbranche, 62, a yellow-cab driver for nine years, said from his bed at Kings County Hospital Center on Sunday, three days after he was attacked. ''Then I saw blood.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When her husband became too sick five years ago to tend to the family dry-cleaning business, Kyung-Sook Woo did not hesitate to take over the job, sometimes rising so early to open the shop that customers would find her with a curling iron in her hand and her long hair half-curled. They knew Mrs. Woo, 52, as their determined but lovable dry cleaner, as much a charming mainstay of Windsor Terrace as the porch-fronted houses that line the Brooklyn neighborhood's narrow streets. She had been robbed at least twice, her customers said, but she remained undeterred. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]