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...Follow the Olympic Flame http://www2.fiammaolimpica.it/ Stalk the Olympic flame! With this cool site, you can follow the torch as it travels through Italy en route to the opening ceremony of the Torino games. And if you're an Italian resident, you can even use this site to sign up to be a torchbearer...
...each will speak, as well as conservative icons Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich and George Will. And all three already have plans on Feb. 1 to speak to the Tuesday Group, a coalition of GOP moderates. Neither the moderates nor the conservatives, however, are likely to make a single endorsement en masse, since clusters of each have already endorsed different candidates. Which just goes to show that the once unified congressional Republicans, left to their own devices, can be as fractious a group as their famously divided Democratic colleagues...
...launch was delayed for two days by high winds-first at Cape Canaveral, where they threated the Atlas V rocket, and then, improbably, by a storm that knocked out power to the control center in Maryland. But the New Horizons mission finally lifted off successfully on Thursday, en route to a 2015 encounter with Pluto...
...asphyxiated in a tunnel at Mina MAY 1994 270 pilgrims die in a stampede at the "stoning of the devil" APRIL 1997 A fire caused by a gas heater at a Mina camp kills 343 APRIL 1998 A stampede during the stoning ritual - 118 dead Further deadly crushes en route to the stoning: MARCH 2001 35 dead FEBRUARY 2003 14 dead FEBRUARY 2004 251 dead JANUARY 2005 3 dead JANUARY 5, 2006 76 Hajj pilgrims die when a hotel in Mecca collapses
...that day—Dec. 20, 2005—Midwest Airlines flight 210 from Boston en route to Milwaukee was beset by a dangerous mechanical problem, which caused the landing gear to emit a shower of sparks as it rose into the air. For those of us aboard, who had no idea anything had gone awry, the malfunction was a bothersome inconvenience, a mere “problem with the indicator,” as the captain so vaguely and reassuringly cooed over the intercom. The plane circled Logan for two hours, burning off fuel so as to minimize...