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06 Aug 2009 10:35

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Sports: Steve McNair will be ever-present for the Titans this season

  • His number, 9, will adorn the team’s helmets this year. The Tennessee Titans, still reeling from the loss of their most iconic player, will use their helmets to remember him (among other ways). The back-of-the-helmet decals will definitely help keep his memory alive for many. But it’s his loss – a shocking death in a murder-suicide – that’s still fresh in the minds of many. source
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06 Aug 2009 01:48

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Offbeat: A famous koala dies. OK, pretty much the only famous one.

  • Say it ain’t so, Sam! Sam the koala became famous earlier this year after being offered a water bottle in the midst of the Australian brushfires. A photographer took a shot of it and it ended up plastered in papers around the world. Unfortunately, Sam had the same problem that many koalas have in the part of Australia he lived: Chlamydia. The disease ravaged the population of Victoria, Australia’s koalas, and it got Sam, too. Hopefully koala heaven is full of firefighters and full of water bottles. source
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04 Aug 2009 00:55

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World: China tries, fails to avoid the pneumonic plague like the plague

  • 3 people have died from the pneumonic plague so far source
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01 Aug 2009 20:55

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World: Corazon Aquino’s son: She respected the rights of everyone equally

  • She really put into practice defending not only the rights of her friends but even those who would oppose you, relinquishing her power as fast as possible with adoption of the 1987 constitution. And, then, I can go on and on.
  • Filipino Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III • On his mother, former president Corazon Aquino, who died Saturday after a long bout with colon cancer. Aquino’s role in a quiet revolution that overtook the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos was considered one of the most impressive political feats of the 20th century. • source
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01 Aug 2009 19:25

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World: “This was a hate crime”: A club for gay teens in Israel attacked

  • three number of people killed in the attack in Tel Aviv source
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01 Aug 2009 11:21

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World: Corazon Aquino: A Filipino leader for the people, dead at 76

After her husband was assassinated, Aquino started a march to become president of the Philippines, successfully leading the country through turmoil. source
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29 Jul 2009 10:45

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Culture: Michael Jackson’s live-in doc wasn’t doing well financially

  • $435,000 amount in judgments and liens Dr. Conrad Murray was on the hook for before he went to work for the King of Pop source
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27 Jul 2009 22:38

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Culture: Source: Michael Jackson’s doctor gave him a lethal dose

  • The doctor gave him Diprivan, and that did him in. According to a source close to the investigation and the Jackson family, authorities have their pinpoints directly on Dr. Conrad Murray, the live-in doctor who was apparently giving the now-deceased King of Pop his pills. Last week, authorities were looking in Murray’s office in Houston, supposedly for evidence of manslaughter. So yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke it. (Note that we could’ve gone with a pill metaphor but didn’t.) source
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26 Jul 2009 21:09

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U.S.: Sad, depressing story of the day: A huge car crash in New York

  • one Ford Windstar minivan drove the wrong way on a divided highway; it crashed, then rolled down a hill and burst into flames source
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22 Jul 2009 20:35

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Tech, World: iPhone prototypes: Serious business in China – deathly serious

  • A Chinese worker for Foxconn was entrusted with a 4th Generation iPhone prototype. source
  • The worker lost the phone, told his bosses, freaked out, and killed himself last week. source
  • A Foxconn security guy was suspended, and Chinese police are investigating. source
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