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Model who lost hands and feet dies
Brazilian model who lost hands and feet dies Jan. 24, 2009, 4:15 PM EST RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- One month ago, 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Bridi was living the dream of many young Brazilian women, trading her striking good looks for a modeling career that promised to lift her family out of poverty. Then she contracted a seemingly ordinary urinary tract...
Jan 25, 2009, 5:35 pm - NBey6

Peterson: Engaged To Be Married
Drew Peterson says he's engaged to be married Publicist confirms commitment to 23-year-old woman despite missing wife msnbc.com news services updated 1:00 p.m. ET, Wed., Dec. 17, 2008 Drew Peterson, the retired Illinois police sergeant who gained national attention after he was...
Dec 17, 2008, 1:15 pm - NBey6

Cure For AIDS Patients?
November 14, 2008 Rare Treatment Is Reported to Cure AIDS Patient By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of...
Nov 14, 2008, 4:44 pm - NBey6

Heartbreaking Story
Divers find car swept down Green River with kids inside You News Story Published: Nov 7, 2008 at 9:09 AM PST...
Nov 7, 2008, 2:55 pm - NBey6

Before The Court Today
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Nov 3, 2008, 12:12 pm - NBey6

Facts don't get in the way of Web Political Rumors
Published - Nov 01 2008 10:36AM EDT | AP By MARTHA MENDOZA - AP National Writer With just days to go before the election, gossip, hearsay, innuendoand smears are flying through the Internet as gadflies and rumormongershope to sway voters before they head to the polls. It's a lot ofmud being slung, it's understandable, but I think it's still kind ofsad, said...
Nov 1, 2008, 12:52 pm - Tenaj

New Tactics in Politics
Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story By JOE MANDAK 1 hour ago PITTSBURGH (AP) A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter B scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false r...
Oct 24, 2008, 5:43 pm - NBey6

Russian spa opens monument to the enema
Russian spa opens monument to the enema MOSCOW - A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday. There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art, Alexander Kharchenko told The...
Jun 19, 2008, 4:35 pm - angelm

A Soldier's Suicide: Did He Have to Die?
A Soldier's Suicide: Did He Have to Die? Published: 12/21/07, 5:25 PM EDT By KIMBERLY HEFLING...
Dec 21, 2007, 6:32 pm - Tenaj

One step at a time
Early on during this hurricane drama one of the threads on LP began a shrill call for people to go down and buy bottles of water to send to the victims hours after the storm came in. A time when little was known about conditions on the coast, except that people were in trouble. That's the way we Americans tend to do things. We jump in without pausing for reflection, anxious to do SOMETHING, even it it's a meaningless gesture. We might, with this storm a...
Sep 5, 2005, 10:41 pm - Rip Snorter