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Sweatbox' borrows from long tradition that's difficult to emulate
Sunday, 10.11.2009, 11:57am
The people who died Thursday at a spiritual resort in Arizona had
spent time in a "sweatbox" similar to what Native Americans and other
cultures have used for prayer and purification rituals throughout
history.
Two people died and were 19 injured after spending up to two hours inside this "sweatbox" at an Arizona resort.
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Girl, 12, slugged back at Phillies slugger
Friday, 10.09.2009, 11:22am
Jennifer Valdivia scooped up the baseball after it sailed into the
right-field stands. The 12-year-old smiled and giggled over the
keepsake from her first Major League ballgame.
Jennifer Valdivia, 12, holds the record-setting baseball after it was returned this week to her.
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For caretakers, cross is about a promise to a friend
Thursday, 10.08.2009, 10:30am
Henry and Wanda Sandoz greet their visitors with a little warning:
watch out for the "Mojave Greens," their name for "Crotalus
scutulatus," the local rattlesnakes that inhabit the area around
Sunrise Rock.
Henry and Wanda Sandoz stare up at the now-boxed 6-foot metal cross at the center of a Supreme Court case.
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High court to decide if war memorial violates Constitution
Monday, 10.05.2009, 04:45pm
Driving along a pockmarked road amid rocks and Joshua trees in a
lonely southern California desert, religious controversy might be the
last thing you'd expect to encounter. A judge ruled the Mojave Cross must be covered until a First Amendment issue can be resolved. |
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Foreclosure blight: Cleanup crawls along
Sunday, 10.04.2009, 03:20pm
A $3.9 billion federal program aimed at saving neighborhoods blighted
by foreclosure is getting off to a slow start, CNNMoney.com reports.
The Neighborhood Stabilization Program gives states and localities
money to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned properties. Among the
stumbling blocks has been acquiring foreclosed homes from the banks.
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Happy birthday, TARP: Up to $200 billion is on us
Saturday, 10.03.2009, 10:34am
Taxpayers stand to lose between $100 billion and $200 billion on TARP
-- Treasury's $700 billion financial market bailout. While that's
nothing to sneeze at, many experts say the Troubled Asset Relief
Program -- which celebrates its first birthday today -- helped rescue
the economy from a depression, CNNMoney.com reports. But others argue
that the billions of dollars delayed an inevitable collapse of the
financial sector.
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Olympic 'nopes' beat out hope in Chicago
Friday, 10.02.2009, 06:23pm
The announcement that Chicago, Illinois, will not host the 2016 Olympic
Games took the hopeful wind out of many in the Windy City. But for
almost half of the city's dwellers, the International Olympic
Committee's decision was winning news.
Dreams of hosting the 2016 Olympics were dashed for many Chicagoans. But for others, the news was welcome.
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Flood rescuer repeats father's heroic actions
Friday, 10.02.2009, 07:35am
Thirty years after his father drowned trying to save someone in a
river, Zack Stephney waded into the historic Georgia floodwaters to
help a woman whose car had washed off the interstate.
'My eyes zoomed
in to see her fear,' he said. "I thought this woman is going to drown
in front of us."
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Detroit: Too broke to bury their dead
Thursday, 10.01.2009, 03:37pm
At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.
Inside
the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up,
unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the
county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the
freezer.
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They have just minutes to issue tsunami warning
Thursday, 10.01.2009, 07:20am
When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into
fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing
for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the
next five minutes, they have to decide whether to issue a warning of
danger.
Brian Shiro has been a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for four years.
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This particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans. The virus is entirely new.
The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another, and from one country to another. As of today, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries.
This is only part of the picture. With few exceptions, countries with large numbers of cases are those with good surveillance and testing procedures in place.
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