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120 die as jet crashes in flames By Kate Connolly in Grammatiko (Filed: 15/08/2005) Two people made a desperate attempt to save a Boeing 737 minutes before it crashed into a Greek hillside killing all 121 people on board, it was reported last night. Many of the dead are thought to be children on their way to a sports tournament. Witnesses in villages near the crash site reported a thunderclap-like bang as the plane hit the hillside The pilots of two F16 fighters that intercepted the Cypriot airliner said that the co-pilot was slumped in his seat and the captain...

Four Boy Scout leaders were killed in Virginia on Monday, the opening day of the organization's national Jamboree, when a metal tent pole they were holding hit a power line and apparently ignited the canvas tent above them, according to Scout officials and witnesses. Officials late Monday confirmed the leaders who died are Ron Bitzer, Michael Lacroix and Michael Shibe of Anchorage and Scott Powell, who moved to Ohio last year. A fifth Alaska Scout leader, Larry Call, and an unidentified contractor were hospitalized with injuries, according to Boy Scout officials. Call is being treated at a Virginia hospital burn...

Children die beneath Mugabe's bulldozers By Alistair Leithead in Harare (Filed: 24/06/2005) A piece of red plastic tape flutters from a post outside the remains of Lavender Nyika's home in Tafara - a place outside Harare which means "we are happy". But there is little happiness here. The tape is a traditional sign representing a loss in the family, and while hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have lost their homes, few have lost a daughter. Lavender Nyika's daughter Charmaine was crushed to death Charmaine was two years old and inside the family home when the police came with their bulldozers...

Shocking footage of crowd control 'Chinese-style' has been obtained by Sky News. The film shows dozens of hired thugs running amok in a village just 60 miles from the capital Beijing. Villagers are shown being beaten with long canes while gunfire can be heard in the background. Six villagers are reported to have died while 50 were injured. It is the worst footage of violence to emerge from the secretive country since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. The trouble broke out after the hired hands, some wearing helmuts and khakis, moved in to clear land needed by a nearby...

Will this be the first country to die from Aids? By David Blair in Matsanjeni (Filed: 04/06/2005) A dirt floor and the stinging odour of wood smoke were Margaret Zwane's only companions when she died inside a tumbledown mud hut in rural Swaziland. She never left her children to seek hospital treatment and, until a few days before Aids dragged the life from her, this emaciated mother was struggling to work the fields with a hoe. One in eight Swazis will be Aids orphans in five years When Mrs Zwane succumbed, her daughter and two sons became orphans, for Aids...

Terri Schiavo is not the first person to have a feeding tube removed, although the public may be left with that impression because of intense media attention and her parents' emotional pleas to have the tube reinserted. But getting an accurate picture of how often this procedure or stopping other forms of life support takes place in the United States is extremely difficult, partly because of privacy concerns. No national or state statistics exist on the number of patients removed from life support each year. FOX News contacted more than 12 public and private organizations and agencies in search of...

A federally funded watchdog group is investigating the recent deaths of four disabled Floridians amid an aggressive campaign by the state to cut millions of dollars from programs that provide medical care for disabled people in community settings. Saturday, March 26, 2005 (Herald.com)

The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos Catholic Citizen.org ^ | 10.24.03 Posted on 10/24/2003 12:47:20 PM PDT by Coleus TORA! TORA! TORA! The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos Thrilled to Death: Euthanasia proponent George Felos is Michael Schiavo's lawyer CLEARWATER, October 23, 2003 - The motivation behind Michael Schiavo's dire quest to end the life of his severely disabled wife is not certain. He has a child and another on the way with another woman but a divorce would suffice in that case. However, there is the suggestion that he...

I think the problem here is that you and so many like you have such a funny way of defining life and looking at the importance of it. A fetus that cant even breathe on its own is alive to you and precious even if its own mother dosent want it to ever be born...A woman so totally incapacitated that she cant even aknowledge the presence of the man she loved so much that she vowed to spend the rest of her life with him has a 'right' to exist in such a state. Pretend if you will, that you...

Rep. Tom Delay’s efforts Saturday to have the House and Senate enact special legislation to stop the forced starving of Terri Schiavo and the President’s willingness to return to D.C. over the weekend to sign the emergency law represents a proud moment for all who still maintain that the Judeo-Christian ethic undergirds who we are and what we deem worth fighting for. Long ago Jewish law made a distinction between withholding medication and special treatments from a patient as opposed to withholding food and water. Whereas there comes a time when we are no longer required to proactively employ “heroic”...

Hawking flip flops Filed under: General LinkyLoo— Mark @ 12:22 pm Stephen Hawking flip flops on Black Hole Theory: I had lunch (well, I had lunch, he sipped, well not sipped, held on to, a feeding tube) with the man in 1999 at the Atlanta APS meeting.

Michael Schiavo is quoted as asking “When is that bitch gonna die?” by Terri's nurse, Carla Iyer in a deposition in September of 2003.

10:02 AM EST Mar 15 Two wounded suspected Abu Sayyaf prisoners walk after police stormed a maximum-security jail in a hail of gunfire Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippines braced for retaliatory attacks after some of the country's most hardened terror suspects were killed in a failed prison uprising that left 28 people dead, most of them inmates killed in a barrage of bullets as hundreds of police stormed the maximum security facility. The dead included three leaders and a fourth member of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, a group notorious for deadly attacks and ransom kidnappings...

NEW LONDON, Conn. - A judge ruled Tuesday that a confessed serial killer — set to become the first inmate executed in New England in 40 years — is mentally competent and can forgo further appeals of his death sentence. Michael Ross, 45, is scheduled to be executed Jan. 26 for killing four young women in eastern Connecticut in the 1980s. He has admitted to killing a total of eight women and raping several of them. Superior Court Judge Patrick Clifford ordered Ross to testify in court and be examined by a psychiatrist to ensure he was competent to decide...

Group: 2 More Detainees Die in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - Human Rights Watch said Monday it had uncovered two more cases of prisoners dying in American custody in Afghanistan (news - web sites), and it accused the Bush administration of "dragging its feet" on investigations that could have prevented the abuse of prisoners in Iraq (news - web sites). In an open letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the New York-based rights group said it had new evidence of "an alleged murder of a detainee by four U.S. military personnel" in Afghanistan in 2002. More recently, it said a...

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ATLANTA--Good-looking people get all the breaks--including the ultimate one. Now there's evidence they live longer, too.

Wow...I guess P Diddy wasn't fooling around.... Vote or Die

ANN ARBOR (APUPI) In a catastrophe certain to reverberate throughout American society for decades, millions of the MTV generation have succumbed suddenly in the past twenty-four hours, after ignoring rapper P. Diddy's and Senator Hillary Clinton's frantic warnings over the past weeks. "I feel like I failed," said the morose musician. "I called millions of young people in the hopes that we could avoid this, but somehow the message just didn't get through." The unprecedented die-off has resulted in horrific scenes all across the nation. Bodies are stacking up on college campuses, in pizza parlors, malls, and bars, and the...

IF I MUST DIE No one really wants to die To leave this earth with tasks undone To jump up into the sky I really don’t want to die