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...entire city of John Dillingers, feeling guiltless for stealing from the banks. Boemio is well aware that short selling isn't ethical and is exacerbating Vegas' economic problems. People, she believes, should make their payments, accept their paper losses and ride out the crash. "Guess what, a______s of Las Vegas. That's what gambling is about. That's what investing is about," she says. "It's greedy. But we're all doing it. Because why not?" It's very hard, she says, to suffer as the one honest person in a town of successful con artists...
Hudson River • footage of midair crash over...
Perhaps the deaths of nine Australians in a plane crash in Papua New Guinea this week has been so deeply felt because they were visiting a place that to many Australians is almost a sacred site. Or maybe it was that the group, collectively, had so many young children waiting for them at home. Whatever the reason, the nation was in mourning this week after nine members of a tour group died in a plane crash on their way to the famous Kokoda track in PNG. Five Papua New Guinea nations were also on board the Twin Otter when...
...passengers to the tiny village of Kokoda, 50 miles northeast of the capital Port Moresby. Onboard flight CG4684 was co-pilot Royden Soauka, and a tour group of nine Australians and their local guide Steven Jaruba, a local businessman. By early on August 14, three days after the crash, authorities reported a 14th person may have been on the plane, a local mine worker who was not listed on the passenger manifest...
...World War II. On the morning of the flight, Moala reportedly radioed that she was descending on the grassy airstrip at Kokoda and then, about ten to 20 minutes later, she radioed that she had not landed and was ascending. Locals in the area heard the sound of a crash and later found the plane's wreckage on the side of a mountain about five minutes flying time from the airstrip...