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...Then, shortly before midnight, someone burst into the Sago Baptist church and announced that there were 12 survivors. Hundreds of people surged out the door. Church bells rang. For a brief spell, it appeared, there would be a repeat of the stunning 2002 rescue of nine Pennsylvania miners, who had survived more than three days underground after their mine had flooded...
...Allawi, Washington's idea of a secular alternative to Jafaari and Mahdi, is not exactly an inspiring figure, either. During his brief spell as Prime Minister last year, he showed little capacity for administration and no political vision beyond his own survival. He failed even to rally like-minded secular parties. Despite the liberal use of state resources during the election of campaign, he was soundly defeated last January; his vote base doesn't seem to have grown in the recent election, either...
...office that he previously held for two terms in the 1990s.After taking the oath of office before the packed chamber, Reeves extolled his fellow council members and the city of Cambridge in a statement in which he promised to “stand up, speak up, and be brief.”“Any one of us could be the mayor; every two years we change the mayor. It is an odd process. I promise to serve you to the best of my ability,” said Reeves, who first served as mayor from...
...Pennsylvania. More than half of the cases were caused by the new, more dangerous strain. The CDC conducted a survey of its own, profiling 33 recent cases in four states. Twenty-three of the people had never been hospitalized and the other 10 were women who had had only brief hospital stays to deliver babies-suggesting that the new strain is ranging freer than any C. diff has before. One 31-yr.-old woman in the study, who was 14 weeks pregnant with twins, died of the disease. An even more chilling paper in the New England Journal surveyed...
...Dover school board became the first in the nation to explicitly embrace intelligent design in October of 2004, when it required teachers to read the brief statement at the start of the evolution unit in the biology class. Teachers later refused and the statement was read instead by administrators. Jones said the Dover case was the result of ?the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy...