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17 Feb 2010 10:52

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U.S.: A stuck gas pedal blamed for a crazy car at an auto auction

  • 27 people were injured (in a crowd of 100!) by the 1995 Volvo source
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16 Feb 2010 23:52

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U.S.: Unlucky Mount St. Helens climber found; no, he didn’t survive.

  • Boom, it busted off and I saw him clawing for the edge with a startled look on his face, and then he disappeared. I was looking right at him, he was only 10 feet away … then he just disappeared.
  • Climber Scott Salkovics • On the death of fellow climber, Joseph Bohlig, who fell 1,500 feet to his death inside Mount St. Helens yesterday. The cornice that held him up fell out from under him, literally making him fall inside the volcano.  Salkovics was just watching Bohlig get his picture taken by a friend. source
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16 Feb 2010 23:37

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U.S.: Amy Bishop could’ve gone to jail for shooting brother, but didn’t

  • three the number of charges Bishop could’ve faced as a result of her brother’s shooting death
  • 1992 the year the statute of limitations prevented Bishop from facing any charges source
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16 Feb 2010 12:54

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U.S.: Obama loans lots of money to a couple of nuclear reactors

  • $8.3 billion goes to two reactors in Burke County, Georgia source
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16 Feb 2010 09:49

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U.S.: Must be the hair: Mitt Romney attacked on a plane for some reason

As his plane was taking off from Vancouver the Winter Olympics yesterday, some dude tried to attack him. It’s because he was in Vancouver. source
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15 Feb 2010 20:43

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U.S.: Place you don’t want to be: Inside an active, deadly volcano

  • Poor guy. A climber reportedly fell inside the caldera (i.e. giant eruption-caused hole) of Mt. St. Helens today. He was five feet from the edge of the crater when the ground he was standing on collapsed.  Rescue crews are now trying to save him. *fingers crossed* source
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15 Feb 2010 11:57

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U.S.: Why Evan Bayh’s drop-out puts Democrats in a tough spot

  • $13
    million     the amount Bayh had in his coffers prior to his drop-out; he was up significantly on the GOP in recent polls
  • 4,500
    people     the number of people the Dems need to sign a petition for a new candidate (500 per district) – by tomorrow
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15 Feb 2010 11:44

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U.S.: WTF? Evan Bayh drops out of Indiana Senate race; Twitter reacts



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15 Feb 2010 09:20

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U.S., World: Hillary Clinton has a prediction on what happens to Iran next

  • That is how we see it. We see that the government in Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the Parliament, is being supplanted and that Iran is moving towards a military dictatorship.
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • Speaking at a televised town hall meeting at Carnegie Mellon University. She’s literally suggesting that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps could take power away from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and company based on the intelligence they have. She also notes that UN sanctions would focus on the guards, which control Iran’s nuclear program. Interesting take. source
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14 Feb 2010 21:07

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U.S.: Amy Bishop’s history comes back to haunt her again

  • She was a suspect in a 1993 mail bombing at Harvard. A day after it was reported she was implicated in the 1986 murder of her brother, the accused University of Alabama-Huntsville shooter had another skeleton fall out of her closet. Amy Bishop, along with her husband James Anderson, were questioned in a mail bomb case involving Harvard professor Dr. Paul Rosenberg, While Anderson says they weren’t suspects, a more disturbing find at the time was a novel Bishop was writing about a woman who killed her brother and hoped to make amends by becoming a great scientist. Sound familiar? source
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