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Plenty of Shame
At the very same moment one evening last week I heard my wife shouting at the television the same thing I was at the same time, “what are you doing?” So who where we shouting at? It was Brian Williams of the NBC Nightly News, one of the...
Tags: Radio, NBC (tv network), Television, YouTube, Entertainment
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2 foreign firms among 4 interested in Ind. lottery
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two foreign companies are among four firms competing for a chance to become the Indiana lottery's first private manager. The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/RxofxH ) the four firms have submitted information to Hoosier...Tags: United Kingdom, Scientific Games Corporation, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, Companies and Corporations
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Cross country tour rides through Middlebury to honor emergency responders
MIDDLEBURY – A special group of cyclists from the United States and Australia are teaming up to ride across the country in honor first responders, and they're getting help from a local RV company. The Tour of Duty is riding across the U.S. from San...
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Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk
Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Compared to those conceived...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, In Vitro Fertilization, Urinary System, Human Body, Cornell University
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Diver killed by shark off southwest Australia
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Police say a man has been killed by a shark while diving with his brother off a beach in southwest Australia. It's the fourth fatal shark attack in Australia since September, all of them off the continent's southwest corner.... -
Man to face Alabama trial in wife's honeymoon diving death
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama. An Alabama man who already served prison time...Tags: Facebook, Justice System, Marriage, Prosecution, Punishment
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Oops! Forklift smashes $1M worth of Australia wine
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — An unsteady forklift dropped a container full of fine Australian wine worth more than $1 million, smashing most of the bottles. The winemaker says he's "gut-wrenched, shocked and numb" after the loss of his flagship...Tags: Crimes, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice
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Father: Abandoned Michigan snorkeler unnerved but OK
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The father of a U.S. tourist accidentally left behind by a dive boat company while snorkeling on Australia's Great Barrier Reef says it wasn't the way his son expected to cap off a year down under. Jim Cole said...Tags: Michigan
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Volcano ash could turn Australia eclipse blood red
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian night owls will be treated to a lunar eclipse, and ash in the atmosphere from a Chilean volcano could turn it blood red. The Sydney Observatory says the eclipse will begin at 3:25 a.m. Thursday (1:25 p.m. EDT, 5:25 p.m. GMT...Tags: Volcanoes, Astronomy, Science, Sydney (Australia), Science and Technology
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Australian camels could be shot to curb methane
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Marksmen could be paid to slaughter Australia's vast population of methane-belching camels that roam the Outback as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The government wants the killing of wild camels...Tags: Global Warming
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'60s counterculture icon 'Bear' Stanley dies in Australian car crash
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — 1960s counterculture icon and once prolific LSD producer Owsley "Bear" Stanley has died in a car crash in his adoptive country of Australia. A police statement said a man in his 70s died Saturday when a car he was...Tags: LSD, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Psychedelic (genre)
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Alabama man wants charge dismissed in bride's death
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man accused of killing his wife during a honeymoon diving trip in Australia has asked a judge to dismiss murder charges. Gabe Watson's attorneys asked a judge this week to dismiss the charges because they are the...Tags: Crimes, Justice System, Lawyers, Murder, Prosecution
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