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HEART-STOPPING THRILL RIDE A study of 55 adults on a roller coaster called Expedition GeForce reports that it triggered irregular heartbeats and atrial fibrillation, potentially fatal for heart patients...
...name is Curtis Jackson, grew up without a father in the drug-plagued New York neighborhood of South Jamaica, Queens. He started selling crack at the age of 12 after his mother—a dealer herself—was murdered. Jackson almost suffered the same fate. A near-fatal shooting in 2000 left him with nine bullet wounds but sent his life in a different direction: music.By all accounts, 50’s rap career has been hugely successful. Earlier this year, he became the first recording artist since the Beatles to simultaneously have four singles...
Traditional favorite Anthony D. Galluccio placed first again this year, but lower voter turnout and stronger showings from challengers diluted his influence. This would prove fatal for incumbent Maher, who has in past years benefitted from Galluccio’s transfer votes...
...This was a big loss for Arnold, but not yet a fatal blow," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Los Angeles-based Republican strategist."The question now is how does he reconnect with voters who supported him [in the recall election] in 2003 but who abandoned him this time?" For Schwarzenegger to reconnect, Hoffenblum says, "he has to calm down the rhetoric, stop being the celebrity and start being the governor...
...real historical figure. After a hell-raising youth, Cupido converts to Christianity and becomes the first "Hottentot", or Khoi, missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where the church cruelly forgets him, plunging him into near-fatal hardship. As in more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version won Marlon Brando an Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake...