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...stretches of street were slick with blood, and up and down the avenues you could hear the screams of people plunging from the burning tower. People watched in horror as a man tried to shimmy down the outside of the tower. He made it about three floors before flipping backward to the ground...
...stretches of street were slick with blood, and up and down the avenues you could hear the screams of people plunging from the burning tower. People watched in horror as a man tried to shimmy down the outside of the tower. He made it about three floors before flipping backward to the ground...
...Wednesday brings the mother of all backward-looking indicators, the Gross Domestic Product number for the second quarter. The forecaster consensus - however likely that is to be slightly off - is a full-moon, goose-egg, love-love 0.0 percent, which at this point should be as much of a relief as anything. Smart economists will be leafing through the report for seeds of what we can expect going forward, namely the points taken off the GDP by hand-over-fist inventory liquidation, theoretically a good and fertile development for the seasons ahead. Here'll be the really scary news...
...Vance, who trains for triathlons, grabbed the shark by its sandpapery tail and tried to pull, but it would not budge. He yanked again, and Jessie fell away, his arm ripping, as the shark clamped down. Aware that two girls were still farther out in the water, Vance walked backward, pulling the shark along the sandy bottom of the shallow sea toward shore. With Jessie's arm only partly swallowed, the shark tried to wiggle free from Vance's barehanded grasp. But Vance, at 6 ft. 1 in. and 200 lbs., held on and dragged it to shore where...
...Scott Conlon, 31, the club bouncer, told police she called him "white trash" when he asked her to move her illegally parked car around 2 a.m. After she moved the car a few feet away, Conlon says, he heard the engine roar and turned to see the SUV lurch backward, directly at him and a line of people waiting to get into the club. When the car came to a stop, 16 people were pinned against the building's front wall. Conlon had sustained injuries to his leg, shoulder and liver. Someone opened the driver's door and Grubman "fell...