From The New York Times:
Bridge Hero Gets Offer: Paid Tuition
Among the dozens of wrenching accounts to come out of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the actions of 20-year-old Jeremy Hernandez were a bright spot: Trapped in a tipping school bus with 50 children, he kicked open the back door and began […]

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This just in …
As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.
Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again — the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: […]

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La Journada, Mexico
This is an alarming tendency that must cause the authorities in that country to reflect: what has occurred that things should have come to this?
Filmmaker Michael Moore has no doubt: the school massacres are due to the pathology of violence and fear that prevails in the country, which has the highest rate […]

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If crazed university gun men aren’t enough to make your day, how about mass starvation?
The world’s bee colonies are dying mysteriously, and a study from Landau University suggests that mobile phones may be to blame. The colonies are subject to “Colony Collapse Disorder,” and the disorder accounts for the death of anywhere from 50-70 […]

 
From The Billings Gazette:
Butte blast blamed on leaking gas
By The Associated Press
BUTTE - Natural gas leaking from a supply line is what caused an explosion here Sunday that seriously injured a retired priest, fire marshal John Lasky said Monday.
The blast was ignited when the Rev. Jim McCarthy, 71, tried to light a cigarette while taking […]

So in Dubai, they are building an 80 story tower next to a Marina.  This is a photo of the excavation for the buildings foundation…
 
Nearing completion, workers discovered this leak in the wall after hearing a sharp cracking sound.  They were ordered to leave the site, and soon after, this happened….

Doh!

Now they have a bigger Marina.
From […]

 
From MSNBC.COM: 
Space fireball just misses jetliner
Was it satellite debris or meteor? Aviation authorities debate incident
SANTIAGO, Chile - Pilots of a Chilean commercial aircraft approaching the Auckland airport in New Zealand said they spotted flaming space debris falling past their jet, the LAN Chile airline reported Wednesday.
The airline said in a brief communique that the pilot, […]

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From Stuck in Customs.

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By Restless
This site is a dynamic map of world disasters in progress or recently happened. Earthquakes, bus accidents, epidemics, it’s all here. Click on the different flashing icons at their locations and you get a closeup map or an explanation. Check it out!

From YahooNews:
Truck spills 2 tons of pig heads on road
BERLIN - A truck spilled two tons of pigs’ heads on a road in western Germany, giving passing drivers a shock on the night before Halloween, police said Tuesday.
The accident happened Monday night after the truck turned off a highway in Herne, in the Ruhr region, […]

 
By Restless
35 years ago, President Nixon used his executive powers to secretly drop 110,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia, instructing the pilots to falsify their flight records. He tried to cover up this by putting illegal wiretaps on journalists and other government officials who were investigating and/or leaking the details. In the name of national […]

From The Miami Herald: 
Artificial reef made of tires becomes ecological disaster
What began 30 years ago as an idealistic plan to shape an artificial coral reef has become an underwater wasteland
A plan in the early 1970s to create a massive artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale has turned into an environmental mess with the U.S. Navy, Broward […]

From YahooNews:
Sinkhole swallows part of Mo. man’s home
NIXA, Mo. - A leisurely Sunday morning turned frightening for one southwest Missouri man when a giant sinkhole opened up and swallowed a portion of his home, including his garage and a car parked inside.
The homeowner was reading the paper when the ground started shifting around 8:30 […]

From YahooNews: 
Mass. cemetery’s graves sliding down hill
GREENFIELD, Mass. - The eternal slumbers of about 50 people — including a former Massachusetts governor — are about to be interrupted, either by nature or man.
Directors of the Green River Cemetery are rushing against gravity in an attempt to exhume and rebury the remains before they slide down […]